The Gwent County History - Volume 4 Industrial Monmouthshire, 1780 - 1914

Informationen zum Autor Professor Chris Williams! Professor of Welsh History! Swansea University; and Dr Sian Rhiannon Williams! Senior Lecturer in Education and History! University of Wales Institute! Cardiff. Klappentext This fourth volume in the Gwent Country History series focuses on the industrial revolution and the far-reaching changes it brought to the county. It features chapters on population and population movements; rural economy and society; communications and commerce; the iron! steel! and coal industries; the Chartist Movement; and more. Zusammenfassung This fourth volume in the county history of Gwent/Monmouthshire deals with the explosion of industrial development from 1780 to the eve of the First World War! and as such is first authoritative treatment of the transformation of south-east Wales into a centre of the iron and coal industry.

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• Authors: Chris Williams, Christopher M. (EDT)/ Williams Williams
• Assisted by: Ralph A Griffiths (Editor), Ralph A. Griffiths (Editor), Chris Williams (Editor), Christopher M. Williams (Editor), Sian Williams (Editor), Sian Rhiannon Williams (Editor), Williams Sian (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2011
• EAN: 9780708323656
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2365-6
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Gwent County History; University of Wales Press - Gw; Gwent County History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; 1914, 4, History, HISTORY / General, South Wales, County, Local History, Gwent, Industrial, Volume, 1780, Monmouthshire