An Anglican Aristocracy
The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire 1832-1895
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 7 March 1996
- ISBN 9780198205944
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 223x144x21 mm
- Weight 509 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables, map 0
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Short description:
Matthew Cragoe chronicles the changing fortunes of the aristocratic élite in Victorian Wales. He explores their extensive influence on the agricultural, political, and religious life of one county, Carmarthenshire, and the reasons for its decline by 1895. This clear and lively study challenges the widely-held Welsh historiography in which the contribution of the landed classes is marginalized in favour of the success of radical liberalism and nonconformity, and offers a re-evaluation of the social, political, and cultural contributions of the Anglican aristocracy to the making of a Welsh indentity in the nineteenth century.
MoreLong description:
This lively contribution to a major reassessment of nineteenth-century Wales challenges the widely-held Welsh historiography in which the contribution of the landed classes is marginalized in favour of the success of radical liberalism and nonconformity. This account of nineteenth-century Carmarthenshire emphasizes the social and political dominance of the Anglican and landowning nobility and gentry for much of the period. Matthew Cragoe explores the nature and public roles of a governing élite, arguing that their influence was not simply a function of their members' wealth or their control of local government and the administration of the law, but had a vital ideological dimension in the aristocracy's paternalistic ethic, which found powerful and practical expression in the 'moral economy' of the landed estate.
His clear and vigorous narrative is unerpinned by detailed analytical chapters on agriculture and rural society, the administration of law and local government, the evolving patterns of electoral politics, and the vicissitudes and advances of the Church. Frequent references to other Welsh counties and to England show how this local study has much wider interest and implications than its immediate setting. Matthew Cragoe argues for a re-evaluation of the social, political, and cultural contributions of the Anglican aristocracy to the making of a Welsh identity in the nineteenth century.
meticulously researched book ... his detailed yet highly-readablbe account of the last flowering of the Carmarthenshire aristocracy shows them to have made a 'wide-ranging and constructive contribution to the nineteenth century Welsh society'.
