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(0)Ronald Lewis
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America's emergence as a global industrial superpower was built on iron and steel, and despite their comparatively small numbers, no immigrant group played a more strategic role per capita in advancing basic industry than Welsh workers and managers. They immigrated in surges synchronized with the stage of America's industrial development, concentrating in the coal and iron centers of Pennsylvania and Ohio. This book explores the formative influence...
2) Billy Budd
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1797. On the high seas, the British Navy boards a merchant ship and presses a young sailor into military service. The innocent boy, who believes in the inherent goodness of all men, witnesses cruelty, deceit and betrayal aboard the naval vessel, yet his honesty and hard work earn the friendship and respect of his crewmates. But can this young man survive and maintain his innocence in a harsh, violent world, or will the evils of the British Navy destroy...