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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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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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