Wales and the British overseas empire

Interactions and influences, 1650–1830

H.V. Bowen

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781784993528
  9780719086205
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526117571
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This unique collection of essays is the first book to explore the many relationships that developed between Wales and the British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830.

Written by leading specialists in the field, the essays explore economic, social, cultural, political, and religious interactions between Wales and the empire. The geographical coverage is very broad, with examinations of the contributions made by Wales to expansion in the Atlantic world, Caribbean, and South Asia. The book explores Welsh influences on the emergence of 'British' imperialism, as well as the impact that the empire had upon the development of Wales itself.

The book will be of interest to academic historians, postgraduate students, and undergraduates. It will be indispensable to those interested in the history of Wales, Britain, and the empire, as well as those who wish to compare Welsh imperial experiences with those of the English, Irish, and Scots.

Table of contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• General editor's foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Map
• Introduction
• Writing Wales into the empire: rhetoric, fragments – and beyond?
• Wales, Munster and the English South West: contrasting articulations with the Atlantic world
• Celtic rivalries: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the British Empire, 1707–1801
• Welsh evangelicals, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world and the creation of a ‘Christian Republick’
• From periphery to periphery: the Pennants’s Jamaican plantations and industrialisation in North Wales, 1771–1812
• A ‘reticent’ people? The Welsh in Asia, c.1700–18151
• Asiatic interactions: India, the East India Company and the Welsh economy, c.1750–1830
• Afterword
• Index