Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America

Vivienne Sanders is a prolific author on American history.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction Wales, the Welsh and the Making of AmericaChapter 1 - Madoc – explorer and discoverer of North America?Chapter 2 - The Welsh and the colonisation of North AmericaChapter 3 - Richard Price and the American RevolutionChapter 4 - The Welsh American military contribution to the American War of IndependenceChapter 5 - The Welsh American political contribution to the American RevolutionChapter 6 - Meriwether Lewis, James Monroe and the American WestChapter 7 - The Welsh go WestChapter 8 - Welsh Americans and the American Civil WarChapter 9 - The Welsh and the industrialisation of AmericaChapter 10 - Assimilation and the vanishing WelshChapter 11 - Wales, the Welsh and the making of America – conclusionsBibliographical essayIndex

"A comprehensive cultural history of the United States of America and Wales, written in a lively accessible style with a cast of heroes of Welsh ancestry such as tough miners’ union boss John Llewelyn Lewis and America’s greatest architect Frank Lloyd Wright ..."      --Elis-Thomas