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Intelligent Town is the first full-length study of Swansea's urban development from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Louise Miskell tells the little-known story of how Swansea gained an unrivaled position of influence as an urban center—which led to its brief claim as the “metropolis of Wales,” and how it then lost this status in the face of rapid urban development elsewhere in Wales. As such Intelligent Town provides an important new perspective on Welsh urban history in which the roles of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, and even Bristol are better known as towns of influence in Welsh urban life. It also offers an analysis of how Swansea's experience of urbanization fits into the wider picture of British urban history.
"This is a marvellous book, lucid, lively and well written which shifts the focus of Welsh history in the early nineteenth-century away from the well-ploughed path to Merthyr and engages with a civic place in which science and learning were valued. It asks new questions not simply about Swansea but also about the whole industrial and urban experience of Wales in the early nineteenth century." - Neil Evans, Cardiff University
| Editors' Foreword | p. v |
| Preface | p. ix |
| List Of Illustrations | p. xi |
| List Of Tables And Figures | p. xii |
| Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 'Prejudicial to our ancient rights and privileges': Urban governance, c. 1780-1800 | p. 18 |
| 'Many advantages not to be found in any other part of Wales': Improvement and identity, c. 1800-1820 | p. 41 |
| 'A degree of commercial and manufacturing importance': Industrialization and regional status | p. 70 |
| 'The content and comfort of the workmen': The Swansea populace and social relations | p. 98 |
| 'Cutting each other's throats by our unhappy divisions': Local government in the post-reform era | p. 132 |
| 'There is a spirit of intelligence abroad': Urban elites and urban culture | p. 158 |
| Conclusion | p. 182 |
| Biographical Appendix | p. 194 |
| Bibliography | p. 205 |
| Index | p. 221 |
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ISBN: 9780708325100
ISBN-10: 0708325106
Series: Studies in Welsh History
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 200
Published: 31st July 2012
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.272
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