Wales in America: Scranton and the Welsh, 1860-1920

by Bill Jones

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780708313879
  • Publish Date 25 September 2003 (first published 5 May 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 27 January 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint University of Wales Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 302
  • Language English