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WHY WALES NEVER WAS
WHY WALES NEVER WAS |
| By: |
Simon Brooks |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1786830132 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781786830135 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2017 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
In the nineteenth century, the `Age of Nationalism', when nationalisms flowered in every small European country, no Welsh national movement emerged. Contrary to the popular view that Welsh radical politics was a boost for Welsh nationalism, Why Wales Never Was shows that this was the very reason for its failure. |
| Synopsis: |
Written as an act of protest in a Welsh-speaking community in north-west Wales, Why Wales Never Was combines a devastating analysis of the historical failure of Welsh nationalism with an apocalyptic vision of a non-Welsh future. It is the `progressive' nature of Welsh politics and the `empire of the civic', which rejects both language and culture, that prevents the colonised from rising up against his colonial master. Wales will always be a subjugated nation until modes of thought, dominant since the nineteenth century, are overturned. Originally a comment on Welsh acquiescence to Britishness at the time of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the book's emphasis on the importance of European culture is a parable for Brexit times. Both deeply rooted in Welsh culture and European in scope, Why Wales Never Was brings together history, philosophy and politics in a way never tried before in Wales. First published in Welsh in 2015, Why Wales Never Was affirms the author's reputation as one of the most radical writers in Wales today. |
| Illustrations: |
No |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
University of Wales Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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