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In the wake of the Scottish vote on independence, questions of sovereignty, devolution, and local control have perhaps never been more salient. This book explores the evolution of the idea of national identity in modern Britain as it affected Wales. It ranges historically from the French Revolution and its aftershocks to the wide-ranging effects of World War I and on to present debates over decentralization and ties with Europe, while also offering close looks at key personalities, like Lloyd George, the first (and thus far only) Welsh prime minister. Drawing on both his extensive experience in politics and his decades of academic study, Kenneth O. Morgan has written what is likely to be the definitive work on this topic.
In the wake of the Scottish vote on independence, questions of sovereignty, devolution, and local control have perhaps never been more salient. This book explores the evolution of the idea of national identity in modern Britain as it affected Wales. It ranges historically from the French Revolution and its aftershocks to the wide-ranging effects of World War I and on to present debates over decentralization and ties with Europe, while also offering close looks at key personalities, like Lloyd George, the first (and thus far only) Welsh prime minister. Drawing on both his extensive experience in politics and his decades of academic study, Kenneth O. Morgan has written what is likely to be the definitive work on this topic.
Foreword
1. Consensus and Conflict in Modern Welsh History
2. Democracy in Wales, Chartism to Devolution
3. Kentucky’s ‘Cottage-bred Man’: Abraham Lincoln and Welsh
Democracy
4. The Relevance of Henry Richard
5. Lloyd George as a Parliamentarian
6. Flintshire’s Liberal Loyalist: the Political Achievement of Sir
Herbert Lewis
7. Wales and the First World War
8. Alfred Zimmern’s Brave New World: Liberalism and the League in
1919 and After
9. England, Wales, Britain and the Audit of War
10. Power and Glory: Labour in War and Reconstruction 1939 –
1951
11. Welsh Devolution: the past and the future
12. Wales and Europe: From Revolutionary Convention to Welsh
Assembly, 1789 - 2014
Postscript: A Tale of Two Unions
Both academic readers and the general public interested in modern British and Welsh history, and the advance of modern democracy down to the advent of Devolution. Also readers interested in modern constitutional change, especially in the light of the coming referendum in Scotland and the debate over the UK's relationship with Europe.
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