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North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Black and White Illustrations. Bound in quarter navy cloth with red paper boards and silver foil lettering. 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…
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Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Ronald L. Lewis
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- Title Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
- Author Ronald L. Lewis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
- Date 2008-10
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780807832202 / 0807832200
- Weight 0.01 lbs (0.00 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 1 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Immigrants - United States - History, Coal miners - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008009930
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.049
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