03767nam 2200577 a 450 991115046880332120251116194936.0(dli)HEB08892(CKB)3400000000085079(MiAaPQ)EBC3446621(Au-PeEL)EBL3446621(CaPaEBR)ebr11084813(CaONFJC)MIL817227(OCoLC)932318783(EXLCZ)99340000000008507920031103h20032002 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTransnational West Virginia ethnic communities and economic change, 1840-1940 /edited by Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis1st pbk. ed.MorgantownWest Virginia University Press2003, c2002xviii, 325 p. ill. ;24 cmWest Virginia and Appalachia ;10-937058-76-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Networks Large and Small -- Section I: Antebellum Roots -- 1. Matthew Mason, "Paddy vs. Paddy: Labor Unrestand Provincial Identities along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1849-1851" -- 2. Ken Fones-Wolf, "Caught between Revolutions: Wheeling Germans in the Civil War Era" -- Section II: Niche Communities -- 3. Elizabeth Cometti, "Swiss Immigration to West Virginia, 1864-1884: A Case Study" -- 4. Deborah R. Weiner, "From Shtetl to Coalfield: The Migration of East European Jews to Southern West Virginia" -- 5. Ken Fones-Wolf, "Craft, Ethnicity, and Identity: Belgian Glassworkers in West Virginia, 1898-1940" -- Section III: Immigrant Coal Miners -- 6. Joe William Trotter Jr., "Black Migration to Southern West Virginia" -- 7. Frederick A. Barkey, " 'Here Come the Boomer 'Talys': Italian Immigrants and Industrial Conflict in the Upper Kanawha Valley, 1903-1917" -- 8. William B. Klaus, "Uneven Americanization: Italian Immigration to Marion County, 1900-1925" -- Section IV: Representations of Ethnic Work Communities -- 9. Anne Kelly Knowles, "Wheeling Iron and the Welsh: A Geographical Reading of Life in the Iron Mills" -- 10. Kenneth R. Bailey, "Strange Tongues: West Virginia and Immigrant Labor to 1920" -- 11. Ronald L. Lewis, "Americanizing Immigrant Coal Miners in Northern West Virginia: Monongalia County between the World Wars" -- Epilogue: Leaving West Virginia -- 12. Susan Johnson, "West Virginia Rubber Workers in Akron" -- About the Contributors -- Index.West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states.But as this collection of historical studies demonstrates, this state was built by successive waves of immigrant labors, from the antebellum railroad builders to the twentieth-century coal.West Virginia and Appalachia ;1.ACLS Humanities E-Book.MinoritiesWest VirginiaHistoryImmigrantsWest VirginiaHistoryEthnologyWest VirginiaHistoryWest VirginiaEthnic relationsWest VirginiaEconomic conditionsWest VirginiaHistoryTo 1950MinoritiesHistory.ImmigrantsHistory.EthnologyHistory.Fones-Wolf Ken871533Fones-Wolf Ken871533Lewis Ronald L.1940-871534American Council of Learned Societies.NyNyACLNyNyACLBOOK9911150468803321Transnational West Virginia1945556UNINA