Welsh In Wisconsin

Author : Phillips G. Davies
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206257
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welsh in Wisconsin written by Phillips G. Davies and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1840 and 1890, many Welsh looked to Wisconsin for relief where they could purchase inexpensive, productive land. With large Welsh landowners controlling most of the arable land in Wales and Corn Laws, which prohibited importation of cheap food, domestic food prices increased dramatically and left the typical tenant-farming family with fields full of grain but empty cupboards. Once in Wisconsin, the newcomers kept to themselves, maintained their native language and national traditions and worshipped together in close-knit communities. This addition to the People of Wisconsin series weaves period letters from the Owen family and Private John Jones, who served in the Union army in the Civil War, into the narration. Welsh in Wisconsin also contains anecdotes from early immigrant life and photographs depicting Welsh churches in Wisconsin.

Author : Daniel Jenkins Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979507601
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early History of the Welsh in the Proscairon District of Wisconsin written by Daniel Jenkins Williams and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957034235
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Scarrott's Prize Fighters written by Lawrence Davies and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979507618
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early History of the Welsh in the Proscairon District of Wisconsin written by Daniel Williams and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David G. Holmes
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870203460
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish in Wisconsin written by David G. Holmes and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Author : Anne Kelly Knowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welsh Settlement in Waukesha County, Wisconsin 1840-1873 written by Anne Kelly Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vivienne Sanders
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837919
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America written by Vivienne Sanders and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard H. Zeitlin
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germans in Wisconsin written by Richard H. Zeitlin and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Author : Mark Knipping
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205323
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finns in Wisconsin written by Mark Knipping and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mining to logging to farming, Finns played an important role in the early development of Wisconsin. Although their immigration to the state came later than that of most other groups, their contributions proved just as significant. Finns pride themselves for their sisu, a Finnish term which, roughly translated, means fortitude or perseverance, especially in the face of adversity. They needed their strength of character to help them face the difficult task of building a new life in a new land. Many Finns arriving in Wisconsin, unable to own land at home, hoped to establish themselves as small independent farmers in the new land. They settled mainly in northern Wisconsin, due to jobs and land available there. This book traces the history of Finnish settlement in Wisconsin, from the large concentrations of Finns in the northern region, to the smaller "Little Finlands" created in other areas of the state. Revised and expanded, this new edition contains the richly detailed story of one Finnish woman, told in her own words, of her hardships and experiences in traveling to a new country and her resourcefulness and strength in adapting to a new culture and building a new life.

Author : Mai Zong Vue
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870209434
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hmong in Wisconsin written by Mai Zong Vue and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unknown to many Americans at the time, the Hmong helped the US government fight Communists in Laos during the Secret War of the 1960s and 1970s, a parallel conflict to the Vietnam War. When Saigon fell and allies withdrew, the surviving Hmong fled for their lives, spending years in Thai refugee camps before being relocated to the United States and other countries. Many of these families found homes in Wisconsin, which now has the third largest Hmong population in the country, following California and Minnesota. As one of the most recent cultural groups to arrive in the Badger State, the Hmong have worked hard to establish a new life here, building support systems to preserve traditions and to help one another as they enrolled in schools, started businesses, and strived for independence. Told with a mixture of scholarly research, interviews, and personal experience of the author, this latest addition to the popular People of Wisconsin series shares the Hmong’s varied stories of survival and hope as they have become an important part of Wisconsin communities.