The Welsh In America Letters From The Immigrants

Author : Alan Conway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816657377

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The Welsh in America by Alan Conway Pdf

The Welsh in America was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Welsh formed a small but significant part of the great migration from Europe to the United States during the nineteenth century. In this volume they tell their own story in letters they wrote from America to their families and friends back home. The letters are highly readable, written, for the most part, in vivid and entertaining style which reveals the Welsh as an unusually literate people. The 197 letters are arranged chronologically and geographically, starting with letters that tell of the voyage across the Atlantic. Once in America, the immigrants described their experiences in the farming country of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some of the other midwestern states. Later, as the frontier moved west, they wrote of their efforts to establish exclusive Welsh settlements on the Great Plains. From the industrial centers there are letters from coal miners and iron and steel workers. The fortune seekers who went to California in the gold rush or to the mines in Colorado are also represented. Still others tell of their search for salvation in the Mormon Zion of Utah. For each chapter or group of letters Mr. Conway has written an introduction giving the general background of the region or period and relating it to the Welsh settlers. Thus the events chronicled and the views expressed in the letters become significant in the history of the times. The majority of the letters were written in Welsh and they appear here in translation. Some were obtained from the files of old newspapers or denominational magazines; others came from the collections of the National Library of Wales or from individuals.

Author : Alan Conway
Publisher : Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [1961]
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 0708300855

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The Welsh in America : Letters from the Immigrants by Alan Conway Pdf

Author : Conway
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : 0816602298

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Welsh in America by Conway Pdf

Author : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786837912

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Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America by Vivienne Sanders Pdf

In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that ‘very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history’. This book is the first systematic attempt to both recount and evaluate the considerable yet undervalued contribution made by Welsh immigrants and their immediate descendants to the development of the United States. Their lives and achievements are set within a narrative outline of American history that emphasises the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialisation of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and the unsung who worked and fought to acquire greater prosperity and freedom for themselves and for their nation.

Author : Alan Conway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758119844

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The Welsh in America by Alan Conway Pdf

Author : Celeste-Marie Bernier
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748692934

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Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing by Celeste-Marie Bernier Pdf

Provides a wide-ranging entry point and intervention into scholarship on nineteenth-century American letter-writingThis comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field-the history of letters and letter writing-is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks new ground by mapping the voluminous correspondence of these figures and other important American writers and thinkers. Rather than treating the letter as a spontaneous private document, the contributors understand it as a self-conscious artefact, circulating between friends and strangers and across multiple genres in ways that both make and break social ties.Key FeaturesDraws together different emphases on the intellectual, literary and social uses of letter writing Provides students and researchers with a means to situate letters in their wider theoretical and historical contextsMethodologically expansive, intellectually interrogative chapters based on original research by leading academicsOffers new insights into the lives and careers of Louisa May Alcott, Charles Brockden Brown, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Henry James, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edgar Allan Poe, among many others

Author : Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708322413

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The Welsh in Iowa by Cherilyn A Walley Pdf

The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.

Author : Philip McCutchan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1961-07-20
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9780816602469

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Immigration and American History by Philip McCutchan Pdf

Based on a conference at the University of Minnesota, Jan. 29-30, 1960.

Author : Sonia Cancian
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553028

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Families, Lovers, and their Letters by Sonia Cancian Pdf

Families, Lovers, and their Letters takes us into the passionate hearts and minds of ordinary people caught in the heartbreak of transatlantic migration. It examines the experiences of Italian migrants to Canada and their loved ones left behind in Italy following the Second World War, when the largest migration of Italians to Canada took place. In a micro-analysis of 400 private letters, including three collections that incorporate letters from both sides of the Atlantic, Sonia Cancian provides new evidence on the bidirectional flow of communication during migration. She analyzes how kinship networks functioned as a means of support and control through the flow of news, objects, and persons; how gender roles in productive and reproductive spheres were reinforced as a means of coping with separation; and how the emotional impact of both temporary and permanent separation was expressed during the migration process. Cancian also examines the love letter as a specific form of epistolary exchange, a first in Italian immigrant historiography, revealing the powerful effect that romantic love had on the migration experience.

Author : B. Elliot,D. Gerber,S. Sinke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230601079

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Letters across Borders by B. Elliot,D. Gerber,S. Sinke Pdf

This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation.

Author : David A. Gerber
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814732007

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Authors of Their Lives by David A. Gerber Pdf

2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award In the era before airplanes and e-mail, how did immigrants keep in touch with loved ones in their homelands, as well as preserve links with pasts that were rooted in places from which they voluntarily left? Regardless of literacy level, they wrote letters, explains David A. Gerber in this path-breaking study of British immigrants to the U.S. and Canada who wrote and received letters during the nineteenth century. Scholars have long used immigrant letters as a lens to examine the experiences of immigrant groups and the communities they build in their new homelands. Yet immigrants as individual letter writers have not received significant attention; rather, their letters are often used to add color to narratives informed by other types of sources. Authors of Their Lives analyzes the cycle of correspondence between immigrants and their homelands, paying particular attention to the role played by letters in reformulating relationships made vulnerable by separation. Letters provided sources of continuity in lives disrupted by movement across vast spaces that disrupted personal identities, which depend on continuity between past and present. Gerber reveals how ordinary artisans, farmers, factory workers, and housewives engaged in correspondence that lasted for years and addressed subjects of the most profound emotional and practical significance.

Author : Marcelo J. Borges,Sonia Cancian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351361583

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Migrant Letters by Marcelo J. Borges,Sonia Cancian Pdf

The migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers alike. What is it about migrant letters that fascinates us? Is it nostalgia for a distant, yet desired past? Is it the consequence of the eclipse of letter-writing in an age of digital communication technologies? Or is it about the parallels between transnational experiences in previous mass migrations and in the current globalized world, and the centrality of interpersonal relations, mobility, and communication, then and now? Influenced by methodologies from diverse disciplines, the study of migrant letters has developed in myriad directions. Scholars have examined migrant letters through such lenses as identity and self-making, family relations, gender, and emotions. This volume contributes to this discussion by exploring the connection between the practice of letter writing and the emotional, economic, familial, and gendered experiences of men and women separated by migration. It combines theoretical and empirical discussions which illuminate a variety of historical experiences of migrants who built transnational lives as they moved across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the United States. This volume was originally published as a special issue of The History of Family.

Author : Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443883566

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Wales and the American Dream by Robert Llewellyn Tyler Pdf

The Welsh comprised a distinct and highly visible ethno-linguistic group in many areas of the United States during the late decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. Through a consideration of settlement patterns, cultural and religious institutions, language retention, and marriage preference, this book provides a micro-study of four identifiable Welsh communities over a set period of time. The nature, strength and long-term viability of these communities is analysed and assessed, as are the ways in which they changed; a process which saw the Welsh become Welsh-Americans and, ultimately, Americans. Welsh immigrants in the USA were invariably portrayed as models of American citizenship by virtue of their perceived national characteristics and their standards of social behaviour. This book tests the assumption that the Welsh were prime illustrations of the American Dream by analysing one facet of that dream; socio-economic success as revealed by occupational mobility. To what extent did the Welsh as a group occupy a privileged position in the occupational hierarchy, and were they able to maintain and improve upon their social and economic position in a relatively short space of time?

Author : Anna D Jaroszynska-Kirchmann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252097072

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The Polish Hearst by Anna D Jaroszynska-Kirchmann Pdf

Arriving in the U.S. in 1883, Antoni A. Paryski climbed from typesetter to newspaper publisher in Toledo, Ohio. His weekly Ameryka-Echo became a defining publication in the international Polish diaspora and its much-read letters section a public sphere for immigrants to come together as a community to discuss issues in their own language. Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann mines seven decades' worth of thoughts expressed by Ameryka-Echo readers to chronicle the ethnic press's role in the immigrant experience. Open and unedited debate harkened back to homegrown journalistic traditions, and Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann opens up the nuances of an editorial philosophy that cultivated readers as content creators. As she shows, ethnic publications in the process forged immigrant social networks and pushed notions of education and self-improvement throughout Polonia. Paryski, meanwhile, built a publishing empire that earned him the nickname ""The Polish Hearst."" Detailed and incisive, The Polish Hearst opens the door on the long-overlooked world of ethnic publishing and the amazing life of one of its towering figures.

Author : John Willis
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772824377

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More than words by John Willis Pdf

More Than Words features the work of more than twenty scholars from Canada and abroad on post-related topics. Drawing on recent trends in social and cultural history, these new essays address the history and importance of the post from such perspectives as infrastructure, technology, nation-building and interpersonal communications.