Culture, Politics, and National Identity in Wales 1832-1886

ISBN-13: 9780198207542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str.

Matthew Cragoe

Opis

Culture, Politics and National Identity in Wales 1832-86 offers the first comprehensive account of politics in the principality between the first and third reform acts. Based on a wealth of previously unused sources in both English and Welsh, and grounded firmly in recent scholarship on electioneering elsewhere in Britain, Cragoe challenges the existing narrative of political history in the principality. There was more to politics in Victorian Wales, he suggests, than the current focus on nonconformity and radical liberalism after 1860 allows.

Recenzje

Cragoe's exploration of the mechanics of chapel power, and the institutional use of moral force to impose political discipline over voters, extending even to the exercise of collective forms of coercion and community surveillance, should, as he hopes, set an important new agenda for future research in the political history of Wales.