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university walesof press new titles autumn & winter 2014 1 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 1 06/08/2014 13:01 Please visit our brand new website www.uwp.co.uk for further information on UWP and our publications, including backlist titles All catalogue details are correct at the time of publication. Factors beyond the control of UWP may result in changes, of which we will advise you when orders are confirmed. contacts contents University of Wales Press History 2 10 Columbus Walk Brigantine Place Welsh and Celtic Studies 4 Cardiff Wales Political Philosophy 7 CF10 4UP Tel: +44 (0) 29 2049 6899 Gothic Literary Studies 8 Fax: +44 (0) 29 2049 6108 Email: [email protected] Reference 10 Web: www.uwp.co.uk Journals 12 Director Helgard Krause Sales and Marketing Manager Eleri Lloyd-Cresci Head of Commissioning Sarah Lewis How to order 17 Production and Editorial Manager Siân Chapman UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 2 06/08/2014 13:01 history Revolution to Devolution Reflections on Welsh Democracy Kenneth O. Morgan This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and the evolving idea of national identity in modern Britain. It casts back to the impact of change in Europe and the wider world from the 1789 Revolution in France onwards, covering key personalities such as Lloyd George and the impact of the First World War in Wales. Kenneth O. Morgan is Professor of Contemporary British History at King’s College, London, and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. September 2014 234x156mm HB ISBN: 9781783160884 £75.00 PB ISBN: 9781783160877 £19.99 eISBN: 9781783160891 1 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 1 06/08/2014 13:01 history NEW EDITION The History of Wales John Graham Jones November 2014 198 x 129mm This is a popular history based on a rich array of published sources on the history of Wales, PB ISBN: 9781783161683 spanning the period from the earliest cave dwellers to burgeoning devolution in Cardiff Bay. £9.99 eISBN: 9781783161690 Written accessibly and well-illustrated, this book is sure to appeal to a broad readership, both academic and lay. As the only concise history of Wales currently available in print, it is an ideal introduction for the general reader. John Graham Jones was until recently Head of the Welsh Political Archive at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and has published widely on the political history of modern Wales. The North Wales Quarrymen 1874–1922 R. Merfyn Jones From the eighteenth century until its virtual demise in the twentieth century the slate industry February 2015 dominated the economy, culture and society of Snowdonia in north-west Wales. The industry 216 x 138mm not only sculpted a landscape but also created unique Welsh-speaking communities which PB ISBN: 9781783161751 continue to be strongholds of the Welsh language. This is a history of those communities, of the £22.99 trade union they created and of the desperate struggles they fought to establish their rights. NEW R. Merfyn Jones was formerly a Professor of Welsh History and Vice-Chancellor at Bangor EDITION University. 2 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 2 06/08/2014 13:01 history NEW The Place-Names of Wales EDITION Hywel Wyn Owen February 2015 This volume selects some of the better-known place-names in Wales and provides evidence 198 x 129mm of historical forms and dates, to explain their origin and meaning and to interpret the names PB ISBN: 9781783161645 £11.99 in the context of landscape, history and language. It gives a grid reference and the historical eISBN: 9781783161652 county for each name, explaining the importance and relevance of place-name study, and includes a helpful guide to some sound-changes relating to the Welsh language. Hywel Wyn Owen is a renowned authority on the place-names of Wales, a consultant to national bodies, and a regular broadcaster. ‘Let’s Do Our Best for the Ancient Tongue’ The Welsh Language in the Twentieth Century Edited by Geraint H. Jenkins and Mari A. Williams This volume allows readers to familiarise themselves with the history of a language which, February 2015 over the centuries, has been an integral part of the everyday life of the Welsh people and 234 x 156mm their sense of nationhood. PB ISBN: 9781783161782 £29.99 Geraint H. Jenkins is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Senior Fellow of CAWCS; Mari A. Williams was formerly a Research Fellow and Project Leader at the University NEW of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth. EDITION 3 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 3 06/08/2014 13:01 welsh & celtic studies Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales Janet Burton and Karen Stöber February 2015 234 x 156mm This is the first fully illustrated scholarly guide to the religious houses of Wales, from the HB ISBN: 9781783161799 Norman Conquest to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. An extensive introduction provides £90.00 PB ISBN: 9781783161805 the wider historical, archaeological, cultural, political and social context for nearly sixty £24.99 histories of individual religious houses. Equipped with maps, ground plans and practical eISBN: 9781783161812 information, this is not only a scholarly book but also a useful guidebook for anyone visiting the monasteries of Wales. Monastic Wales New Approaches Edited by Janet Burton and Karen Stöber Monastic Wales: New Approaches is an interdisciplinary collection of essays written by some of the leading scholars working on aspects of medieval Welsh history. The chapters in this March 2013 volume consider the history, archaeology, architecture and wider cultural, social, political 216 x 138mm HB ISBN: 9780708325827 and economic context of the religious houses of Wales between the Norman conquest in the £80.00 eleventh century, and the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth. eISBN: 9780708325834 Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Karen Stöber is researcher and lecturer at the University of Lleida, Catalunya. They are directors of the ‘Monastic Wales’ project, and general editors of the international Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies. 4 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 4 06/08/2014 13:01 welsh & celtic studies War and Society in Medieval Wales NEW EDITION 633–1283 November 2014 216 x 138mm Welsh Military Institutions PB ISBN: 9781783161393 Sean Davies £24.99 eISBN: 9781783161423 Recent historiography has opened up the source material and allowed for a modern, critical Series: Studies in Welsh History reappraisal of the story of Wales from the end of the Roman period to the conquest by Edward I in 1283. The development of the country is traced within the context of the rest of post-Roman western Europe in a study that is a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in military history and the history of Wales in relation to its neighbours in Britain and on the continent. Sean Davies is a Welsh medieval historian who works as a writer, editor and journalist. Trioedd Ynys Prydein The Triads of the Island of Britain Edited by Rachel Bromwich November 2014 234 x 156mm Rachel Bromwich’s magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as HB ISBN: 9781783161454 a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author’s mastery of the subject, £85.00 eISBN: 9781783161461 including a new preface by Morfydd E. Owen, and is essential reading for Celticists and those interested in early British history and literature, and in Arthurian studies. NEW Rachel Bromwich was Reader in Celtic Languages and Literatures at Cambridge University. EDITION 5 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 5 06/08/2014 13:01 welsh & celtic studies Other titles in the series October 2014 English Language Poetry 234 x 156mm from Wales 1789–1806 PB ISBN: 9781783161003 Elizabeth Edwards £24.99 eISBN: 9781783161010 February 2013 • 234 x 156mm Series: Wales and the French PB ISBN: 9780708325681 £24.99 Revolution eISBN: 9780708325698 Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 Political Pamphlets and ‘A Native Artist’ John Barrell Sermons from Wales March 2013 • 276 x 219mm Illustrations: 59 colour and 74 black and white HB ISBN: 9780708325667 £65.00 1790–1806 PB ISBN: 9780708325674 £25.00 Marion Löffler, with Bethan Jenkins This in-depth volume reviews the Welsh political pamphlets and sermons of the period, focusing on ‘Footsteps of Liberty the debates between religious Dissenters, Methodists and the Church; radicals and loyalists; as & Revolt’ Essays on Wales and the French well as pacifists and patriotic war supporters. Its second part presents annotated editions of five Revolution important Welsh political pamphlets with full translation, thus making them accessible to an Edited by Mary-Ann English-speaking audience for the first time. Constantine and Dafydd Dr Marion Löffler is a Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Johnston Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth, Wales; Bethan Jenkins is Library Assistant at the Bodleian History April 2013 • 234 x 156mm Faculty Library, Oxford. PB ISBN: 9780708325902 £24.99 eISBN: 9780708325919 6 UWP FRANKFURT CATALOGUE-ENG.indd 6 06/08/2014 13:01 political philosophy Other titles in the series September 2014 Identity, Politics and 216 x 138mm the Novel HB ISBN: 9781783160969 £95.00 The Aesthetic Moment eISBN: 9781783160976 Ian Fraser Series: Political Philosophy Now May 2013 • 216 x 138mm HB ISBN: 9780708326060 £90.00 Politics and Teleology in Kant Edited by Paul Formosa, Avery Nietzsche and Napoleon Goldman and Tatiana Patrone The Dionysian Conspiracy April 2014 • 216 x 138mm HB ISBN: 9781783160662 £90.00 Don Dombowski eISBN: 9781783160679 Among Nietzsche’s favourite authors were Bonapartists, who largely formed his view of Napoleon.
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