Philip Jenkins

A History of Modern Wales 1536-1990 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History ofModern Wales is a comprehensive and unromanticised examination of Wales as it was and is. It stresses both the long-term continuities in Welsh history, and also the significant regional differences within the principality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317872689
• Artikelnr.: 49354976

Autorenporträt

Philip Jenkins

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introductory: Which Wales? Part 1: Welsh society. 2. Early modern
society. 3. Yr uchelwyr: the Welsh gentry
Part 2: Church and State 1536-1800. 5. The State. 6. The seventeenth
century crisis. 8. Religion and revivalism 1680-1780. 9. Welsh politics in
the eighteenth century. Part 3: Industry and nonconformity. 10. The
nonconformist triumph 1780-1860. 11. The coming of industry. 12.
Consequences. 13. The politics of protest 1790-1860. 14. The old order.
Part 4: Modern Wales. 15. Inventing a nation: Wales 1840-1880. 16. Liberal
Wales 1886-1920. 17. 'Red Wales' - the socialist tradition. 18. Economy and
society 1920-1990. 19. A nation once again?
20. Historical writing in Wales. Maps. Index.