This fourth volume in the History of Wales deals comprehensively with the events between the civil war and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. The central theme is the development of powerful social forces which took an impoverished and sleepy nation to the threshold of unprecedented social, economic, and political change. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book reveals how demographic growth, agrarian improvements, the development of trade and heavy industries, improved communications, the provision of ...
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This fourth volume in the History of Wales deals comprehensively with the events between the civil war and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. The central theme is the development of powerful social forces which took an impoverished and sleepy nation to the threshold of unprecedented social, economic, and political change. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book reveals how demographic growth, agrarian improvements, the development of trade and heavy industries, improved communications, the provision of educational facilities, the emergence of Dissent and Methodism, and the revival of Welsh culture influenced the making of modern Wales.
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Very Good. Ex-Library. 8vo. ix, 490 pages, bibliography, index. EX-UNIVERSITY LIBRARY copy with a stamp on the title page and on each of the page edges, reference sticker and date sticker on the rear free endpaper. These marks aside, the book is in very clean and good condition. Cloth boards, gilt spine titles. There may have been a reference sticker by the spine foot. The book is in three parts: Strife and upheaval, 1642-1660; The return to stability, 1660-1730; and The age of improvement, 1730-1780.
