Author: Henry Blackwell
Publisher: Aberystwyth : [National Library of Wales]
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708322417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.

Author: University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies. History and Law Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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This title discusses Welsh miners, American coal, and the construction of ethnic identity. In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. The majority of them were skilled labourers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic languages
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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Author: Vivienne Sanders
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786837919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by Welsh immigrants and their immediate descendants to the development of the United States. Their lives and achievements are set within a narrative outline of American history that emphasises the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialisation of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.

Author: Huw Walters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Serials
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: William D. Jones
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Between the years 1860 and 1920 around 80,000 Welsh immigrants settled in the United States. This volume focses on Scranton, the epicentre of Welsh America, and examines the wider issues of how these immigrants regarded their nationality, their mother country, their relationship with other cultures and how they became absorbed into the society of their new home.

Author: Theodore Besterman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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