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The Welsh in their History

By Williams , Gwyn A.

Book information

Publisher
Croom Helm
Year
1982
ISBN
0-7099-3651-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11876620 bytes)
Edition
reprinted 1985
Pages
208\208
Time added
2018-07-11 01:17:09
Arthurian traditionDissentersDr John DeeDruidseisteddfodauFreemasonryGeoffrey of MonmouthGramsciidentityindustrialisationIrelandJacobinismJewinLabour RelationsMarxMerthyrTydfilMethodismMillenarianismOwenPenderynReligionRosicrucianismUnitarianismWelsh languageZetetics

Description

Welsh identity, Welsh nationality in the British Empire. '... In this book--a sequence of interrelated essays--Gwyn Williams aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse. ...' Introduction. Acknowledgements. By Way of Preface: The Primitive Rebel and the History of the Welsh. 1. Welsh Wizard and British Empire: Dr John Dee and a Welsh Identity. 2. Druids and Democrats: Organic Intellectuals and the First Welsh Nation. 3. Locating a Welsh Working Class: the Frontier Years. 4. The Merthyr Election of 1835. 5. Die Penderyn: Myth, Martyr and Memory in the Welsh Working Class. 6. Ambiguous Hero: Hugh Owen and Liberal Wales. 7. Imperial South Wales. 8. When Was Wales? Index.

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