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Vivienne Sanders, "Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America" (U Wales Press, 2021)
In Wales, the Welsh, and the Making of America (University of Wales Press, 2021), Vivienne Sanders writes 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 emphasizes the Welsh influence upon the colonists’ rejection of British rule, and upon the establishment, expansion and industrialization of the new American nation. This book covers both the famous and…
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