Richard Griffiths

The Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920 (eBook, ePUB)

Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first significant study of the entrepreneurial society created by the Welsh coal boom (most books up to now having concentrated upon the workers and the unions). Using the Porth-Pontypridd area as its example, it looks closely at the networks of power created by the second-generation middle classes of the Valleys towns, and at the often hair-raising business methods that they used. Close examination of individuals, and of family groups, gives a vivid sense of the reality of the relationships and contacts, and of the nature of the society in which they moved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783164172
• Artikelnr.: 42888084

Autorenporträt

Professor Richard Griffiths, now retired, was Emeritus Professor at the University of Wales and King's College, London and has enjoyed a distinguished academic career at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Brasenose College, Oxford, University College, Cardiff and KCL. Now retired, he is the author of a number of books on the political history of the Right in Britain and in Europe, on French and English literature, and on religious subjects.