Calvinists Incorporated by Anne Kelly Knowles
Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, the author focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. The text sets the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850 and explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. A wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories are drawn upon to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1700 immigrants.
Knowles, Anne Kelly: - Anne Kelly Knowles is a historical geographer who teaches at Middlebury College, where she has been a member of the Department of Geography since 2002. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and the editor of Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226448534 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226448533 |
| Title | Calvinists Incorporated |
| Author | Anne Kelly Knowles |
| Series | University Of Chicago Geography Research Papers |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1997-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 366 |
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