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Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America

Author : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837919
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America written by Vivienne Sanders and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Americans from Wales

Author : Edward George Hartmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Americans from Wales written by Edward George Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wales and the American Dream

Author : Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883565
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Wales and the American Dream written by Robert Llewellyn Tyler and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Welsh comprised a distinct and highly visible ethno-linguistic group in many areas of the United States during the late decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. Through a consideration of settlement patterns, cultural and religious institutions, language retention, and marriage preference, this book provides a micro-study of four identifiable Welsh communities over a set period of time. The nature, strength and long-term viability of these communities is analysed and assessed, as are the ways in which they changed; a process which saw the Welsh become Welsh-Americans and, ultimately, Americans. Welsh immigrants in the USA were invariably portrayed as models of American citizenship by virtue of their perceived national characteristics and their standards of social behaviour. This book tests the assumption that the Welsh were prime illustrations of the American Dream by analysing one facet of that dream; socio-economic success as revealed by occupational mobility. To what extent did the Welsh as a group occupy a privileged position in the occupational hierarchy, and were they able to maintain and improve upon their social and economic position in a relatively short space of time?

Wales in America

Author : William D. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wales in America written by William D. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Wales Unchained

Author : Daniel G Williams
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783162147
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Wales Unchained written by Daniel G Williams and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributes to the fields of Welsh Studies, Comparative Studies, Transatlantic Studies Offers analyses of key chapters in the cultural making of modern Wales. Offers insights into national and ethnic identity, and encourages readers to consider the extent of Welsh tolerance and intolerance. Draws on Welsh and English language sources, and ranges across literature, history, music and political thought. The book is an example of Welsh cultural studies in action. The book intervenes in key debates within cultural studies: nationalism and assimilationism; language and race; class and identity; cultural identity and political citizenship

The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans

Author : Miguel Covarrubias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans written by Miguel Covarrubias and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1925 book by Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican cartoonist. The book features several dozen black-and-white caricatures of famous American (mostly New York-based) personalities from the 1920s. Many of the drawings were originally published in Vanity Fair magazine, which employed Covarrubias as a staff cartoonist. Cartoons of people including: Florence Mills, Otto Kahn, Willa Cather, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, Calvin Coolidge, H.L. Menchen, George Jean Nathan, John D. Rockefeller, Ann Pennington, Al Smith, Jascha Heifetz, Mary Pickford, Theodore Dreiser, Harold Lloyd, Alfred Stieglitz, Ed Wynn, George Gershwin, George Horace Lorimer, Rudolph Valentino, Leopold Stokowski, Babe Ruth, Carl Van Vechten, Eddie Cantor, Alexander Woollcott, Mrs. Fiske, Joseph Hergesheimer, Emily Lewis.

Welsh in America

Author : Conway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912769
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Welsh in America written by Conway and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slave Wales

Author : Chris Evans
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783161205
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Slave Wales written by Chris Evans and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history - like the woollen industry - that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions'. Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834.

An Enquiry Into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog Ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170. By John Williams, L.L.D.

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Author : John Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog Ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170. By John Williams, L.L.D. written by John Williams and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Welsh Americans

Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807887905
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Welsh Americans written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Freedom Music

Author : Jen Wilson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786834081
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Music written by Jen Wilson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reclaims for Wales the history and culture of a music that eventually emerged as jazz in the 1920s, its tendrils and roots extending back to slave songs and abolition campaign songs, and Swansea’s long-forgotten connection with Cincinnati, Ohio. The main themes of the book are to illustrate and emphasise the strong links between emerging African American music in the USA and the development of jazz in mainstream popular culture in Wales; the emancipation and contribution of Welsh women to the music and its social-cultural heritage; and an historical appraisal as the music journeyed towards the Second World War and into living memory. The jazz story is set amid the politics, socio-cultural and feminist history of the time from whence the music emerged – which begs the question ‘When Was Jazz?’ (to echo Gwyn A. Williams in 1985, who asked ‘When Was Wales?’). If jazz is described as ‘the music of protest and rebellion’, then there was certainly plenty going on during the jazz age in Wales.

150 Famous Welsh Americans

Author : W. Arvon Roberts
Publisher : Llygad Gwalch Cyf
ISBN 13 : 9781845240776
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book 150 Famous Welsh Americans written by W. Arvon Roberts and published by Llygad Gwalch Cyf. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bywgraffiadau byrion o 150 o Gymry mwyaf nodedig America. Caiff Llywyddion, actorion Hollywood, miliwnyddion, a dwsinau o alwedigaethau eraill eu cynnwys yn y gyfrol hon; cyfeirlyfr anhepgor i haneswyr, myfyrwyr ac ymchwilwyr. Adargraffiad; cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 2008. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Genealogy of the Reese Family in Wales and America

Author : Mary Eleanora Reese
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344124129
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of the Reese Family in Wales and America written by Mary Eleanora Reese and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Surnames of Wales

Author : John Rowlands
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806315164
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Surnames of Wales written by John Rowlands and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century

Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century written by William Forbes Skene and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales

Author : Gary Boyd Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales written by Gary Boyd Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Almost since first hearing of Lady Diana Spencer ... many Americans have been aware that the Princess of Wales has genealogical links to this country ... the Princess [is] one-eighth (or more properly, three-sixteenths) American, the granddaughter of a Harvard graduate and U.S. Army captain during World War I ... she also has ancestors who lived in six of the original thirteen colonies ... and probably between twenty and thirty million living distant American cousins.".

A Nation of Singing Birds

Author : Ronald Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912631292
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Singing Birds written by Ronald Rees and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired the Welsh imagination and spread via Welsh emigrants to the religious communities of the USA.