A Bibliography of Welsh Americana
Author : Henry Blackwell
Publisher : Aberystwyth : [National Library of Wales]
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Henry Blackwell
Publisher : Aberystwyth : [National Library of Wales]
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : University of Wales. Board of Celtic Studies. History and Law Committee
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Wales
ISBN :
Author : Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0708322417
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 :
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Celtic languages
ISBN :
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807832200
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 : Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)
Publisher :
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author : William D. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786837919
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 : Henry Blackwell
Publisher : Aberystwyth : National library of Wales
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Wales
ISBN : 9780893708283
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807887900
In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.