British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900

Εξώφυλλο
Kent State University Press, 2006 - 295 σελίδες
How early British immigrants shaped Ohio? Because of their so similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, the English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the invisible immigrants assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their ethnic identities. Yet, of all of Ohio's immigrants the British were the most influential in terms of shaping the state's politics and institutions. Also significant were their contributions of farming, mining, iron production, textiles, pottery, and engineering. Until British Buckeyes, historians have all but ignored and neglected these Industrious settlers. Author William E Van Vugt uses hundreds of biographies from county archives and histories, letters, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify these immigrants; and draw a portrait of their occupations, settlement patterns, experiences and to underscore their role in Ohio history.
 

Περιεχόμενα

The First British Buckeyes
1
The Nineteenth Century Migration Patterns and Assimilation
36
Communities and Settlements
64
Agriculture
95
Crafts and Industry
132
Religion and Reform
180
The Professions Arts and Civil Service
207
Conclusion
220
The County Histories
225
Notes
249
Bibliography
275
Index
289
Πνευματικά δικαιώματα

Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων

Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις

Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα

Σελίδα 8 - And whereas it is just and reasonable, and essential to Our Interest, and the Security of Our Colonies, that the several Nations or Tribes of Indians, with whom We are connected, and who live under Our Protection, should not be molested or disturbed...
Σελίδα 10 - The youngest (she had taken so much pains with my horse) came and placed herself very near me. I began to think she had some amorous design upon me. In about half an hour she began to creep nearer me and pulled my blanket. I found what she wanted and lifted it up. She immediately came to me and made me as happy as it was in her power to do. She was young, handsome, and healthy. Fine regular features and fine eyes; had she not painted them with red before she came to bed!
Σελίδα 11 - Saw an Indian Dance in which I bore a part. Painted by my Squaw in the most elegant manner. Divested of all my clothes except my calico short breech-clout, leggings, and Mockesons. A fire was made which we danced round with little order, whooping and hallooing in a most frightful manner. I was but a novice at the diversion and by endeavouring to act as they did, made them a great deal of sport and ingratiated me much in their esteem. This is the most violent exercise to the adepts in the art I ever...

Αναφορές για αυτό το βιβλίο

Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870
James M. Bergquist
Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2008

Σχετικά με τον συγγραφέα (2006)

William E. Van Vugt is professor of history at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of Britain to America: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States and co-author of Race and Reconciliation in South Africa: A Multicultural Dialogue in Comparative Perspective. His articles have appeared in The Encyclopedia of the Midwest, The Encyclopedia of New York, Making It in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans, and The Reader's Guide to British History.

Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας