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A New History of Wales
Book by Black, Jeremy
246 pages, Paperback
First published February 25, 2000
About the author
Jeremy Black
452 books202 followersJeremy Black is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).
Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).
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October 19, 2015
My first serious foray into the history of Wales, as opposed to vague notions of what it means to have Welsh ancestry. A foundation with points of interest. Laws of the pre-conquest period. The strange autonomy of the Marsh Lords. But on the whole, a place without a bloody history, martial might or great captains of industry, either.
Perhaps the music and the story that moves in the Welsh spirit exists in hearts and minds. A sturdy kind of life of the imagination, sometimes rooted in religion which is story telling, song and otherworldly understanding that makes whatever surrounds you in real life less important. I didn't meet strangers, in other words, in the generations of Welsh who lived their inner life through religious (even though I do not seek it there) or who proved lukewarm about Plaid Cymru's agenda for Welsh independence. Even in so small a country, there were early struggles between Welsh groups and persisting differences between the rural north and urban south. As if the Welsh character was better fitted to small circles and not great movements.
Perhaps the music and the story that moves in the Welsh spirit exists in hearts and minds. A sturdy kind of life of the imagination, sometimes rooted in religion which is story telling, song and otherworldly understanding that makes whatever surrounds you in real life less important. I didn't meet strangers, in other words, in the generations of Welsh who lived their inner life through religious (even though I do not seek it there) or who proved lukewarm about Plaid Cymru's agenda for Welsh independence. Even in so small a country, there were early struggles between Welsh groups and persisting differences between the rural north and urban south. As if the Welsh character was better fitted to small circles and not great movements.
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