Welsh Americans
Subtitle: a history of assimilation in the coalfields
By: Ronald L. Lewis.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780807832202
Subjects: 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 relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emigration, immigration; title: Superintendents, networks, and Welsh settlement patterns; title: Community, republicanism, and social mobility; title: Welsh American cultural institutions; title: Professional inspectors for a disaster-prone industry; title: Ethnic conflict : the Welsh and Irish in anthracite country; title: The Slav "invasion" and the Welsh "exodus"; title: Welsh American union leadership; title: Nantymoel to Hollywood : the incredible journey of Mary Thomas; title: Epilogue: Americanization and Welsh identity.