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This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Writing Wales into the empire: rhetoric, fragments – and beyond? – Neil Evans
2. Wales, Munster and the English South West: contrasting articulations with the Atlantic world –Chris Evans
3. Celtic rivalries: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the British empire, 1707–1801 – Martyn J. Powell
4. Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world and the creation of a ‘Christian Republick’ – David Ceri Jones
5. From periphery to periphery: the Pennants’ Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771–1812 – Trevor Burnard
6. A ‘reticent’ people? The Welsh in Asia, c.1700–1815 – Andrew Mackillop
7. Asiatic interactions: India, the East India Company, and the Welsh economy, c.1750–1830 – H. V. Bowen
Afterword
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2011
      ISBN13: 9780719086205, 978-0719086205
      ISBN10: 719086205

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Writing Wales into the empire: rhetoric, fragments – and beyond? – Neil Evans
      2. Wales, Munster and the English South West: contrasting articulations with the Atlantic world –Chris Evans
      3. Celtic rivalries: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the British empire, 1707–1801 – Martyn J. Powell
      4. Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world and the creation of a ‘Christian Republick’ – David Ceri Jones
      5. From periphery to periphery: the Pennants’ Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771–1812 – Trevor Burnard
      6. A ‘reticent’ people? The Welsh in Asia, c.1700–1815 – Andrew Mackillop
      7. Asiatic interactions: India, the East India Company, and the Welsh economy, c.1750–1830 – H. V. Bowen
      Afterword
      Index

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