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1 online resource (306 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Introduction: Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America -- Chapter 1: Madoc: Explorer and Discoverer of North America? -- Madoc and the early colonisation of America -- Madoc's descendants: the Welsh Indians -- 'Madoc fever' in America -- 'Madoc fever' in Wales -- Opposition to the Madoc story -- Chapter 2: The Welsh and the Colonisation of North America -- Welsh Quakers, Penn and Pennsylvania -- Welsh settlers in Delaware and South Carolina |
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The Welsh contribution to education in the colonies -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Richard Price and the American Revolution -- Price and the taxation of the American colonies -- Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty -- Price and the American Declaration of Independence -- Price's invitation to America -- Price and the American Constitution -- Richard Price: conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Welsh American Military Contribution to the American War of Independence -- Charles Lee -- 'Mad' Anthony Wayne -- Daniel Morgan |
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Welsh American Loyalists, neutrals and the case of Daniel Boone (1734-1820) -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: The Welsh American Political Contribution to the American Revolution -- The search for Welsh American contributors to the American Revolution -- Robert Morris (1734-1806) -- A lost Founding Father -- Button Gwinnett (1735-77) -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Chapter 6: Meriwether Lewis, James Monroe and the American West -- Meriwether Lewis's background -- The aims of the Lewis and Clark expedition -- The expedition's relations with the Indians -- Other problems on the expedition |
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Lewis's achievements -- Lewis's life after the expedition -- James Monroe and the American West -- Chapter 7: The Welsh Go West -- Getting to America -- Why emigrate from Wales? -- The Welsh on the East Coast -- From the East Coast to the West Coast -- Life in the West -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8: Welsh Americans and the American Civil War -- Jefferson Davis (1808-89) -- Welsh American contributions to the Union victory -- The Welsh contribution to a Civil War that helped make America -- The perils of ethnic history -- Chapter 9: The Welsh and the Industrialisation of America |
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Oliver Evans (1755-1819) -- Industrialisation -- Iron and steel -- Coal -- Industry and business -- Quarrying and the stone industry -- Copper and tinplate -- Conclusions -- Chapter 10: Assimilation and the Vanishing Welsh -- How and why the Welsh 'Americanized' -- The acceptance of the Welsh -- a myth? -- Welsh, Welsh American or American? -- John L. Lewis (1880-1969) and the American Dream -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) -- Beyond John L. Lewis and Frank Lloyd Wright -- Chapter 11: Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America -- Conclusions -- A special people? -- 'Nauseating' Welsh writers |
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Bibliographical Essay. |
| Summary |
The exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Welsh -- United States.
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Welsh. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Civilization -- Welsh influences.
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Civilization. |
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Civilization -- Welsh influences. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sanders, Vivienne. Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2021 |
| ISBN |
9781786837912 |
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1786837919 |
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1786837927 (electronic book) |
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9781786837929 (electronic book) |
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