POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WALES
Written by Peter D.G. Thomas
Published by University of Wales
in 1998
ISBN: 0708314449
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- POLITICS
POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WALES
Written by Peter D.G. Thomas.
Stock no. 2110644
1st.
1998.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The author examines the political structure of Wales in the eighteenth century and sets it in the general context of contemporary British politics. ISBN: 0708314449. Wrapper is a little edge-creasing, with some fading.
Front cover
Contents
- Map: The Parliamentary Boroughs of Wales, 1660-1832
- Map: The Great Estates of Wales
- The Morgan Family of Tredegar
- The Owen Family of Orielton
- The Bulkeley Family of Baron Hill
- The Wynn Family of Wynnstay
- 1. The Political Structure of Wales in 1700
- 2. The Parliamentary Borough Constituencies of Wales from Restoration to Reform (1660-1832)
- 3. The First Age of Party (1688-1714)
- 4. The Triumph of the Whigs (1714-1740)
- 5. The Decline of Party and Rise of Oligarchy (1740-1760)
- 6. Jacobitism in Wales
- 7. 'The Prince of Wales': Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1693-1749)
- 8. A Mid-Eighteenth-Century Tory: Sir John Philipps (1700-1764)
- 9. A New Political Era? (1760-1789)
- Select Bibliography
- Index