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Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism by Simon Brooks
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“The chasm between French Jacobinism and British liberalism is not as wide as it seems: both are assimilatory modes of thought rooted in the Enlightenment.”
― Simon Brooks, Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism
tags: assimilation, enlightenment, jacobinism, liberalism
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“The myth that the island of Britain was the God-given property of Welsh-speaking peoples stolen by the Saxons meant that the Welsh were reluctant to give up their claim on Britain by rejecting Britishness.”
― Simon Brooks, Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism
tags: britishness, wales, welsh
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