Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delafield (Wis. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Welsh Settlement in Waukesha County, Wisconsin 1840-1873
Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delafield (Wis. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Calvinists Incorporated
Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226448533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.
The Welsh in Iowa
Author: Cherilyn A WalleyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178316591X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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.
Wisconsin's Past and Present
Author: Wisconsin Cartographers' GuildPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299159405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The atlas features historical and geographical data, including full-color maps, descriptive text, photos, and illustrations.
Nested Identities
Author: Guntram Henrik HerbPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847684670
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This groundbreaking work explores the vital importance of territory and space to any genuine understanding of nationalism and identity. Too often, the contributors argue, national identity is analyzed apart from the lands that are integral to its formation, as territory is seen as a commodity to be brokered rather than as central to a group's self-definition. This volume combines theoretical insights with structured case studies on how national identity manifests itself in space and at different geographical scales.
The Making of Ethnic Capitalists
Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron and steel workers
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Historical Geography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Spatial History
Author: Ian GregoryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351584138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 775
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research. Global in scope and covering a broad range of subjects, the chapters in this volume discuss ways of turning sources into a GIS database, methods of analysing these databases, methods of visualising the results of the analyses, and approaches to interpreting analyses and visualisations. Chapter authors draw from a diverse collection of case studies from around the world, covering topics from state power in imperial China to the urban property market in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, health and society in twentieth-century Britain and the demographic impact of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. Critically evaluating both the strengths and limitations of GIS and illustrated with over two hundred maps and figures, this volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the use of GIS and spatial analysis as a method of historical research.
Wales in America
Author: William D. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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.
Welsh Women
Author: Constance Wall HoltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Over 2,100 annotated entries for English-language books, articles, dissertations, and manuscripts identified through research in Wales, England, and the U.S.