Calvinists Incorporated Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier

Name: Calvinists Incorporated Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier
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ISBN: 9780226448534

ISBN-10: 0226448533

ISBN-13: 9780226448534

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Anne Kelly Knowles

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Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Anne Kelly Knowles is professor of geography at Middlebury College, where she has been a member of the Department of Geography since 2002.



List of Maps, Figures, and Tables


Guide to Pronouncing and Interpreting


Welsh Place-Names


Common Elements in Welsh Place-Names


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Historical Geography of Welsh Emigration to the United States, 1795-1850



The Context of Choice: Internal Migration



The Context of Choice: Emigration and Settlement



Charcoal Iron and the Welsh



The Moral Context of Migration


Appendixes



Occupations of Cardiganshire Natives in the Merthyr Tydfil Area, 1851



Jefferson Furnace Company Land Agreements



Cï¿½n Newydd/A New Song



Welsh Immigrants to the Jackson/Gallia Settlement


Bibliography


Index