BUY

Paper $35.00 ISBN: 9780708323892 Published August 2011 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
An e-book edition will be published.

Instructors

Librarians

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

Renewing a Nation’s Past

Huw Pryce

J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History

Huw Pryce

Distributed for University of Wales Press

308 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2011
Paper $35.00 ISBN: 9780708323892 Published August 2011 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only
E-book $80.00 ISBN: 9780708323908 Will Publish October 2019 For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

This is the first biographical account of John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history. Published to mark the centenary of Lloyd’s most important achievement, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, this study reassesses Lloyd’s significance by setting his work in the context of his life and of the ideas and scholarship of his time. Through its detailed analysis of Lloyd’s work and its rich contextualization, the book offers fresh insights into ideas about history, education, culture, and national identity in Wales.

Contents

Preface
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Introduction

Part One: A Historian’s Life
1. Welsh Liverpool, 1861–1877
2. Expanding Horizons: Aberystwyth and Oxford, 1877–1885
3. Toward A History of Wales, 1885–1911
4. Historian of Wales, 1911–1947
Part Two: The Making of a Nation
5. A Nation Revived: Lloyd and Modern Wales
6. Assumptions  and Methods
7. Origins: From Prehistoric to Post-Roman Wales
8. Tribal Wales: Society and the Church
9. Princely Wales: Rulers as Nation Builders

Conclusion: Creating Welsh History?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Review Quotes
Neil Evans, Cardiff University
“In this remarkable book Huw Pryce does for Welsh autobiography what Sir John Lloyd did for Welsh history—establishes it as a subdiscipline of distinction. Lloyd’s work is set against earlier Welsh historiography in a manner that could only be achieved by a medievalist as well as being firmly and subtly placed in the context of Victorian intellectual history. This is an unusual, if not unique, combination of skills, and along with its elegant style they make it a landmark in Welsh historical writing. Historiography is a burgeoning field and this fine book cultivates a place for Wales within it. It will undoubtedly become a classic.”
For more information, or to order this book, please visit https://press.uchicago.edu
Google preview here

History: European History

You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, see our international sales information.

Chicago Manual of Style

RSS Feed

RSS feed of the latest books from University of Wales Press. RSS Feed