ABSTRACT

Rich in detail but vigorous, authoritative and unsentimental, A History of Modern 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.

chapter One|13 pages

Introductory: Which Wales?

part One|63 pages

Welsh Society

chapter Two|22 pages

Early Modern Society

chapter Three|18 pages

Yr uchelwyr: the Welsh gentry

chapter Four|21 pages

Welsh Language and Culture

part Two|107 pages

Church and State 1536–1800

chapter Five|21 pages

The State

chapter Six|22 pages

The Religious Revolution

chapter Seven|21 pages

The Seventeenth Century Crisis

chapter Eight|19 pages

Religion and Revivalism 1680–1780

chapter Nine|22 pages

Welsh Politics in the Eighteenth Century

part Three|111 pages

Industry and Nonconformity

chapter Ten|22 pages

The Nonconformist Triumph 1780–1914

chapter Eleven|25 pages

The Coming of Industry

chapter Twelve|21 pages

Consequences

chapter Thirteen|20 pages

The Politics of Protest 1790–1860

chapter Fourteen|21 pages

The Old Order

part Four|131 pages

Modern Wales

chapter Fifteen|24 pages

Inventing a Nation: Wales 1840–1880

chapter Sixteen|22 pages

Liberal Wales 1868–1920

chapter Seventeen|19 pages

‘Red Wales' – The Socialist Tradition

chapter Eighteen|19 pages

Economy and Society 1920–1990

chapter Nineteen|22 pages

A Nation Once Again?

chapter Twenty|23 pages

Historical Writing in Wales