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

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.

Download or read book Welsh Fever Books for Welsh Americans written by and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book Americans from Wales written by Edward George Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Welsh Americans written by Historical Society of Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Madog Center for Welsh Studies at The University of Rio Grande was established to support the scholarly study of Welsh and Welsh-American culture, history, arts and humanities in North America as well as to sustain opportunities within the University of Rio Grande and its surrounding community for increased understanding and appreciation of Welsh heritage. This bibliography of prominent Welsh names in the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania was completed to help fulfil that mission."--Introduction.

Download or read book The Welsh in the United States written by Elwyn Thomas Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Welsh in America written by Alan Conway and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Welsh in America was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Welsh formed a small but significant part of the great migration from Europe to the United States during the nineteenth century. In this volume they tell their own story in letters they wrote from America to their families and friends back home. The letters are highly readable, written, for the most part, in vivid and entertaining style which reveals the Welsh as an unusually literate people. The 197 letters are arranged chronologically and geographically, starting with letters that tell of the voyage across the Atlantic. Once in America, the immigrants described their experiences in the farming country of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some of the other midwestern states. Later, as the frontier moved west, they wrote of their efforts to establish exclusive Welsh settlements on the Great Plains. From the industrial centers there are letters from coal miners and iron and steel workers. The fortune seekers who went to California in the gold rush or to the mines in Colorado are also represented. Still others tell of their search for salvation in the Mormon Zion of Utah. For each chapter or group of letters Mr. Conway has written an introduction giving the general background of the region or period and relating it to the Welsh settlers. Thus the events chronicled and the views expressed in the letters become significant in the history of the times. The majority of the letters were written in Welsh and they appear here in translation. Some were obtained from the files of old newspapers or denominational magazines; others came from the collections of the National Library of Wales or from individuals.

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?

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 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recollections of Welsh Americans written by Saint David's Society of Utica, New York and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Welsh in America Letters from the Immigrants written by Alan Conway and published by Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1961]. This book was released on 1961 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Welsh in America written by Alan Conway and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans written by Carl Boyer and published by Carl Boyer. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive genealogy of the known medieval Welsh genealogy of colonial Americans known to have such ancestry, with biographies, full lists of children, bibliography, and place and name indexes.

Download or read book Donna C Davies Collection on the Welsh in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains personal, family, and miscellaneous correspondence of Donna C. Davies, and various articles, newspaper clippings, catalogs and brochures, and notes concerning Welsh culture and Welsh Americans. Also includes genealogical information about the Davies family, photographs and postcards, and one issue of a Welsh American newspaper, Y Drych (Vol. CXXXI, Number 8, August, 1982).

Download or read book Nationhood Providence and Witness written by Carys Moseley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that problems with recognizing the State of Israel lie at the heart of approaches to nationhood and unease over nationalism in modern Protestant theology, as well as modern social theory. Three interrelated themes are explored. The first is the connection between a theologian's attitude to recognizing Israel and their approach to the providential place of nations in the divine economy. Following from this, the argument is made that theologians' handling of both modern and ancient Israel is mirrored profoundly in the question of recognition and ethical treatment of the nations to which they belong, along with neighboring nations. The third theme is how social theory, represented by certain key figures, has handled the same issues. Four major theologians are discussed: Reinhold Niebuhr, Rowan Williams, John Milbank, and Karl Barth. Alongside them are placed social theorists and scholars of religion and nationalism, including Mark Juergensmeyer, Philip Jenkins, Anthony Smith, and Adrian Hastings. In the process, debates over the relationship between theology and social theory are reconfigured in concrete terms around the challenge of recognition of the State of Israel as well as stateless nations.

Download or read book Hanes Cymry America 1872 written by Robert David Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: