Welsh Americans : a history of assimilation in the coalfields / Ronald L. Lewis.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 395 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780807887905
- 0807887900
- 9781469605814
- 1469605813
- Welsh Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- Welsh Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Welsh Americans -- Social conditions
- Welsh Americans -- History
- Immigrants -- United States -- History
- Coal miners -- United States -- History
- Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Middle West -- Ethnic relations
- Pennsylvania -- Ethnic relations
- West Virginia -- Ethnic relations
- Américains d'origine galloise -- Acculturation
- Américains d'origine galloise -- Identité ethnique
- Américains d'origine galloise -- Conditions sociales
- Américains d'origine galloise -- Histoire
- Mineurs de charbon -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Charbon -- Mines et extraction -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Midwest (États-Unis) -- Relations interethniques
- Pennsylvanie -- Relations interethniques
- Virginie-Occidentale -- Relations interethniques
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
- Coal miners
- Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects
- Ethnic relations
- Immigrants
- Welsh Americans
- Middle West
- Pennsylvania
- United States
- West Virginia
- Welsh Americans -- History
- Coal-miners -- United States -- History
- United States -- Minorities -- History
- United States -- Occupations -- To 1900
- Akkulturation
- Ethnische Identität
- Kohlenindustrie
- Soziale Situation
- Walisischer Einwanderer
- USA
- 973.0491/66 22
- E184.W4 L49 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-384) and index.
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.
Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism. Mizruchi approaches this complex development from t.
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