1st Edition
Writing a Small Nation's Past Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950
406 Pages
by
Routledge
406 Pages
by
Routledge
406 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first volume to examine how the history of Wales was written in a period that saw the emergence of professional historiography, largely focused on the nation, across Europe and in the United States. It thus sets Wales in the context of recent work on national history writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, more particularly, offers a Welsh perspective on the ways in... Read more
Contents: Preface; Part 1 Contexts and Backgrounds: Writing a small nation’s past: states, race and historical culture, Neil Evans and Huw Pryce; National historiography, 1850-1950: the European context, R.J.W. Evans; J.E. Lloyd’s History of Wales (1911): publication and reception, Huw Pryce. Part 2 Amateurs and Popularizers: Failed founding fathers and abandoned sources: Edward Williams, Thomas Stephens and the young J.E. Lloyd, Marion Löffler; ’An account obtained from authentic documents’: Jane Williams (Ysgafell) as a historian, Gwyneth Tyson Roberts; A nation of nonconformists: Thomas Rees (1815-85) and nonconformist history, Prys Morgan; Outlaw historian: Owen Rhiscomyl and popular history in Edwardian Wales, John S. Ellis; ’A refreshingly new and challenging voice’: O.M. Edwards’s interpretation of the Welsh past, Lowri Angharad Hughes Ahronson. Part 3 Creating Academic Disciplines: From antiquarians to archaeologists in 19th-century Wales: the question of prehistory, Nancy Edwards and John Gould; John RhÅ·s, Celtic studies and the Welsh past, T.M. Charles-Edwards; The institutionalization of history in the University Colleges of Wales, 1880-1939: Aberystwyth and Bangor, Peter Lambert; Venturing into the ’jungle’: late medieval Wales in the Edwardian age, Ralph A. Griffiths; Town and nation: writing urban histories in 19th- and early 20th-century Wales, Paul O’Leary; Beyond 1282: A.H. Dodd and the problem of modern Welsh history, Neil Evans. Part 4 Comparative Perspectives: The fall of Rome and its aftermath from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, Ian Wood; History and the historians of medieval Catalonia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Adam J. Kosto; A forgotten anniversary: P. Hume Brown’s History of Scotland, 1911, Dauvit Broun; Robert Dudley Edwards and the uses of Catholic nationalism, Ciaran Brady; Conclusion: Welsh national history and its European context, Stefan Berger; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Neil Evans, Cardiff University, UK and Huw Pryce, Bangor University, UK.
