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Wales, the Welsh and the making of America /
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.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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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