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Welsh Americans : a history of assimilation in the coalfields / Ronald L. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Ronald L., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welsh Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Welsh Americans.
- Welsh Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Welsh Americans--Social conditions.
- Welsh Americans--History.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- Coal miners--United States--History.
- Coal miners.
- Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Middle West--Ethnic relations.
- Middle West.
- Pennsylvania--Ethnic relations.
- Pennsylvania.
- West Virginia--Ethnic relations.
- West Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 immigr
- Contents:
- Emigration, immigration
- Superintendents, networks, and Welsh settlement patterns
- Community, republicanism, and social mobility
- Welsh American cultural institutions
- Professional inspectors for a disaster-prone industry
- Ethnic conflict : the Welsh and Irish in anthracite country
- The Slav "invasion" and the Welsh "exodus"
- Welsh American union leadership
- From Nantymoel to Hollywood : the incredible journey of Mary Thomas
- Epilogue: Americanization and Welsh identity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-384) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908830-6-3
- 979-88-9313-321-9
- 1-4696-0581-3
- 0-8078-8790-0
- OCLC:
- 503447648
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