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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787185003321

Autore

Morgan Kenneth O.

Titolo

Revolution to devolution : reflections on welsh democracy / / Kenneth O. Morgan ; typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78316-090-X

1-78316-089-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

341.109236

Soggetti

Wales Politics and government 21st century

Wales Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Consensus and Conflict in Modern Welsh History; 2 Welsh Democracy, Revolution to Devolution; 3 Kentucky's 'Cottage-bred Man': Abraham Lincoln and Wales; 4 The Relevance of Henry Richard; 5 Lloyd George as a Parliamentarian; 6 Liberalism's Flintshire Loyalist: The Political Achievement of John Herbert Lewis; 7 Wales and the First World War; 8 Alfred Zimmern's Brave New World: Liberalism andthe League in 1919 and after; 9 England, Wales, Britain and the Audit of War; 10 Power and Glory: Labour in War and Reconstruction, 1939-1951

11 Welsh Devolution: The Past and the Future12 Wales and Europe: From Revolutionary Convention to Welsh Assembly, 1789-2014; Postscript: A Tale of Two Unions; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain.