Welsh Americans [electronic resource] : a history of assimilation in the coalfields / Ronald L. Lewis.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.Description: x, 395 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780807832202 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807832200 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
- 973.0491/66 22
- E184.W4 L49 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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