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Hope and Heartbreak

A Social History of Wales, 1776-1871

Author(s) David Russell Davies

Hardback - £7.00

Language: English

Genre(s): History, Wales Studies

July 2005 · 304 pages ·216x138mm

· Hardback - 9780708319338

About the Book
About the Author(s)

"Hope and Heartbreak" is the first in a two-volume social history of modern Wales which will revise 'general' histories of Wales through an engagement with the particularity of everyday life.

Author(s): David Russell Davies

Russell Davies is a broadcaster and writer; he is the author of Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870–1920; Hope and Heartbreak: a Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1776–1870, and People, Places and Passions: Pain and Pleasure, a Social History of Wales and the Welsh, 1870–1945.