Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America

AvVivienne Sanders

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-15
Mått:138 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786837905

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Vivienne Sanders is a prolific author on American history.

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A comprehensive cultural history of the United States of America and Wales, written in a lively accessible style with a cast of heroes of Welsh ancestry such as tough miners’ union boss John Llewelyn Lewis and America’s greatest architect Frank Lloyd Wright ...

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction Wales, the Welsh and the Making of AmericaChapter 1 - Madoc – explorer and discoverer of North America?Chapter 2 - The Welsh and the colonisation of North AmericaChapter 3 - Richard Price and the American RevolutionChapter 4 - The Welsh American military contribution to the American War of IndependenceChapter 5 - The Welsh American political contribution to the American RevolutionChapter 6 - Meriwether Lewis, James Monroe and the American WestChapter 7 - The Welsh go WestChapter 8 - Welsh Americans and the American Civil WarChapter 9 - The Welsh and the industrialisation of AmericaChapter 10 - Assimilation and the vanishing WelshChapter 11 - Wales, the Welsh and the making of America – conclusionsBibliographical essayIndex