Welsh Americans [electronic resource] : a history of assimilation in the coalfields / Ronald L. Lewis.

By: Lewis, Ronald L, 1940-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008Description: x, 395 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): 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 relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.0491/66 LOC classification: E184.W4 | L49 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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