Wales in America

Scranton and the Welsh, 1860-1920

Author(s) Bill Jones

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

Series: Studies in Welsh History

  • September 2003 · 302 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708313879

Between the years 1860 and 1920 around 80,000 Welsh immigrants settled in the United States. This volume focses on Scranton, the epicentre of Welsh America, and examines the wider issues of how these immigrants regarded their nationality, their mother country, their relationship with other cultures and how they became absorbed into the society of their new home.

Author(s): Bill Jones

Bill Jones is a lecturer in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University.

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