Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier (Univ Chicago Geography Research Papers GRP)
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Anne Kelly Knowles (Author)
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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, the author 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. The text sets the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850 and explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. A wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories are drawn upon to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1700 immigrants.
About the Author
Anne Kelly Knowles is lecturer in geography at the Institute of Earth Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is a member of the editorial advisory board for Historical Geography.
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- Contributor: Anne Kelly Knowles
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN13: 9780226448534
- Number of Pages: 366
- Packaged Dimensions: 17x23x2mm
- Packaged Weight: 539
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Release Date: 1997-02-06
- Series: Univ Chicago Geography Research Papers GRP
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Anne Kelly Knowles is lecturer in geography at the Institute of Earth Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is a member of the editorial advisory board for Historical Geography.
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