| Description |
1 online resource (x, 395 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-384) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism. Mizruchi approaches this complex development from t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Welsh Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
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Welsh Americans. |
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Assimilation (Sociology) |
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Welsh Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Welsh Americans -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Welsh Americans -- History.
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History. |
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Immigrants -- United States -- History.
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Immigrants. |
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United States. |
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Coal miners -- United States -- History.
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Coal miners. |
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Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects. |
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Coal mines and mining. |
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Middle West -- Ethnic relations.
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Middle West. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Pennsylvania -- Ethnic relations.
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Pennsylvania. |
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West Virginia -- Ethnic relations.
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West Virginia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- Welsh Americans. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008009930 |
| ISBN |
9780807887905 (electronic book) |
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0807887900 (electronic book) |
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9781469605814 (electronic book) |
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1469605813 (electronic book) |
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9780807832202 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807832200 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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