{"product_id":"calvinists-incorporated-welsh-immigrants-on-ohios-industrial-frontier-volume-240-paperback","title":"Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier Volume 240 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Kelly Knowles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural \u003cbr\u003ecapitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of \u003cbr\u003eWelsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After \u003cbr\u003ereconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles \u003cbr\u003efocuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with \u003cbr\u003ethe industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in \u003cbr\u003eWelsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in \u003cbr\u003ethe context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles \u003cbr\u003eexplores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas \u003cbr\u003eposed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in \u003cbr\u003ethe United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and \u003cbr\u003ecommunity histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 \u003cbr\u003eimmigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not \u003cbr\u003eonly among historical geographers, but also among American economic \u003cbr\u003ehistorians and historians of religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Kelly Knowles\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in geography at the Institute of Earth Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is a member of the editorial advisory board for \u003ci\u003eHistorical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 366\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9.03 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53057526333664,"sku":"9780226448534","price":80.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/zyZFqo1nXH9780226448534.webp?v=1781378691","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/calvinists-incorporated-welsh-immigrants-on-ohios-industrial-frontier-volume-240-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}