Manchester University Press
Afterword
Abstract
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. The book focuses on to Welsh relationships with the British overseas empire that were complex, multilayered and at times contradictory. It builds upon the future studies of Wales and the empire during the long eighteenth century. By the 1830s not only the empire changing, with the slave system being dismantled and the end coming into sight for the East India Company. But Wales itself was maturing into an industrialised nation that was being shaped in deep and profound ways by the rapid export-led growth of the coal and iron industries. It is evident, then, that much work remains to be done if Wales is to be fully integrated into the British imperial historiography and the empire is to be afforded a central role in the writing of Welsh history.
Abstract
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. The book focuses on to Welsh relationships with the British overseas empire that were complex, multilayered and at times contradictory. It builds upon the future studies of Wales and the empire during the long eighteenth century. By the 1830s not only the empire changing, with the slave system being dismantled and the end coming into sight for the East India Company. But Wales itself was maturing into an industrialised nation that was being shaped in deep and profound ways by the rapid export-led growth of the coal and iron industries. It is evident, then, that much work remains to be done if Wales is to be fully integrated into the British imperial historiography and the empire is to be afforded a central role in the writing of Welsh history.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- General editor’s foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xii
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Map xiv
- Introduction 1
- 1 Writing Wales into the empire 15
- 2 Wales, Munster and the English South West 40
- 3 Celtic rivalries 62
- 4 Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world and the creation of a ‘Christian Republick’ 87
- 5 From periphery to periphery 114
- 6 A ‘reticent’ people? 143
- 7 Asiatic interactions 168
- Afterword 193
- Index 197
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- General editor’s foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xii
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Map xiv
- Introduction 1
- 1 Writing Wales into the empire 15
- 2 Wales, Munster and the English South West 40
- 3 Celtic rivalries 62
- 4 Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world and the creation of a ‘Christian Republick’ 87
- 5 From periphery to periphery 114
- 6 A ‘reticent’ people? 143
- 7 Asiatic interactions 168
- Afterword 193
- Index 197
