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Nicholas K. Alderton
Emlyn Hooson and the Welsh Liberal Party, 1962-1979

This study presents an analysis of the Welsh Liberal Party under the leadership of Emlyn Hooson. It begins with an overview of the period prior to Hooson's 1962 by-election win in Montgomery, following th…

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Sergi Auladell Fauchs
The Catalan Crisis

Applying theory to the political crisis in Catalonia and Spain.The Catalan Crisis explores the dissolution of the politico-territorial status quo between Catalonia and Spain and examines the emergence of …

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Gary Browning
Browning, G: Lyotard and the End of Grand Narratives

Revisits the work of postmodern French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.Lyotard shook the cultural world in the late twentieth century by announcing postmodernism and the end of grand narratives. He capt…

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Gosia Buzzanca
There She Goes, My Beautiful World

A memoir that follows a woman's journey to build a new life in Wales after surviving trauma in Poland.What does "home" mean? Is it where you come from, or is it something that you have to create…

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Sarah Siân Chave
Hafren

A meditation on the significance of the Welsh river Hafren.The Severn, or Afon Hafren in Welsh, is a mighty river. She has shaped many histories and is part of many folk stories. In Celtic traditions, wat…

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Neil Collins
International Velvet

How Welsh bands and musicians soared up the music charts in the 1990s.The 1970s and '80s were a bleak time for much of Wales: the closure of steel works and coal mines led to mass unemployment while the c…

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Hywel M. Davies
The Last Invasion

This study presents a cultural rather than the usual history of the French invasion of Pembrokeshire in 1797, using primary sources both in English and Welsh to debate of how the invasion was remembered a…

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Demin Duan
Tocqueville Between East and West

This book adopts an Eastern or Chinese perspective on Alexis de Tocqueville's political thought, highlighting the 'aristocratic' nature of his theory of freedom; and, as it does to, it takes the great tra…

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Aled Eirug
Dafydd Elis-Thomas

Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Lord Elis-Thomas of Nant Conwy, was one of the outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years. His political career spanned from first election to Westminster as a Plaid Cymr…

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Paul Frame
'A World of New Ideas', 1650-1820

In the long eighteenth century, between 1650 and 1820, Wales and the rest of Europe moved from a world of alchemy to one of steam engines and electricity. The scientists of Wales contributed to that chang…

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William Gibson
James II and Wales

Studies the unsuccessful rule of King James II in seventeenth-century Wales.The reign of James II was a dramatic failure in Wales. He became King when Welsh loyalty to the crown and church was strong. How…

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Clare Gogerty
The Water Remedy

The elemental pull of water is irresistible, whether it's to bathe, swim, shower, splash about, sail or simply paddle. We are drawn to it not just for pleasure but for its healing and wellbeing benefits. …

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Leon Gooberman
Waging War and Building Peace

The British economy altered radically between 1934 and 1947. Some of the most dramatic changes were in Wales as its struggling private-sector-led economy was supplanted by one dominated by the state. Init…

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Jon Gower
Raider

A gripping portrait of an American football legend whose impact stretched far beyond the game.From the electrifying fields of Morgan State to the roaring stadiums of the NFL, Raymond Chester's journey is …

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Lily Hamourtziadou
The Ethics of Remote Warfare

Ethical approaches to war require that we don't value only the lives of 'our' people, as Realism asserts; that we don't enforce our sense of justice with weapons, as Militarism demands our 'moral warriors…

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Alex Johnson
My Year of Reading Welshly

A year's worth of recommendations for reading both classic and new literature from Wales, with discussion questions for book clubs included.Alex Johnson invites you to join him on his year of reading Wels…

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Richard Wyn Jones
Putting Wales First

A thorough analysis of the Plaid Cymru Party of Wales. This is the first book to discuss the development of the political thought of Plaid Cymru from its foundation to the dawn of the twenty-first centu…

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Rhian E Jones
Rebecca's Country

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack …

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James Kennedy
Loud Medicine

The music industry as you've never seen it before - from the bottom. Music. We all love it. We can't live without it! But what exactly is it? Why is it so awesome? And who are the mysterious figures who c…

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Gwyneth Lewis
Nightshade Mother

A striking memoir that travels through a traumatic childhood with an abusive mother.In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the …

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