Wales and socialism : political culture and national identity before the Great War
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Wales and socialism : political culture and national identity before the Great War
（Studies in Welsh history, 35）
University of Wales Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-264) and index
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Description
This study examines the spread of socialism in late-Victorian and Edwardian Wales, paying particular attention to the relationship between socialism and Welsh national identity. Welsh opponents of socialism often claimed it to be a foreign import, whereas socialists often asserted that the Welsh were socialist by nature. This study - the first full-scale study of the influence of early socialism across all of Wales - demonstrates that the reality was more complex than either assertion would admit.
Rather than focusing on the structural growth of socialism, the topic is discussed in terms of the spread of ideas and the development of a political culture. The study culminates in a discussion of attempts, in the period before the Great War, to create a specifically Welsh socialist tradition. In approaching the topic from this angle, this study restores a part of the lost diversity of British socialism that is of striking contemporary relevance.
Table of Contents
PrefaceIntroduction Chapter 1 Pioneers (1790s - 1880s) Chapter 2 Putting Down Roots (1889-1899) (i). Fabianism in Cardiff (iii). The Social Democratic Federation in South Wales Chapter 3 South Wales and the ILP Ascendancy (1891-1906) (i). The ILP and Socialism in South Wales Before 1898 (ii). The 1898 Coal Strike and its Consequences (iii). The Political Culture of Socialism in South Wales Chapter 4 Beyond the Heads of the Valleys (c. 1880s-1906) (i). British Socialism and Welsh Wales (ii). Quarrymen, Socialism and Lord Penrhyn (iii). Towards an Indigenous Welsh Socialism? (iv). R.J. Derfel, 'Socialist Cymreig' Chapter 5 Progress and Pluralism (1906-1912) (i). The Socialist Movement in Wales after 1906 (ii). The Struggle for a Welsh Socialist Consciousness Conclusion Bibliography
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