Author: D. Trevor WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Social and Economic Survey of Swansea and District
Author: D. Trevor WilliamsThe Economic Development of Swansea and of the Swansea District to 1921
Author: D. Trevor WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swansea (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The economic development of the Swansea district
Author: David John PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic theses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Quest for the Holy Grail of Graig Trewyddfa, Swansea
Author: John Peter ThomasPublisher: novum pro Verlag
ISBN: 3990647091
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Over about 200 years, up until the 1930s, the open valley of the River Tawe became one of the most heavily industrialised areas of the developed world. The 'Holy Grail' which lay beneath the lands of Graig Trewyddfa, in Swansea, locally known as the 'Great Penvilia Five Foot Vein', was renowned for its quality; smelting metals, at the time, required more than three parts of coal to every one of metal ore, so this was of major economic benefit. Mining the Penvilian coal brought about its own problems - use of child labour, serious accidents, flooding and explosions. It became apparent in the mid-1880s that it was cheaper to smelt ores at the source, rather than ship them to Swansea; this led to the gradual cessation of copper smelting and closing of most coal mines in the Swansea area.
Claiming the Streets
Author: Paul O'LearyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town, and this book examines how those events created new civic identities in the growing towns of nineteenth-century south Wales.
Bard of Liberty
Author: Geraint H. JenkinsPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783165278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first full-scale study of the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg, the renowned Welsh romantic whose colourful life as a Glamorgan stonemason, poet, writer, political activist and humanitarian made him one of the founders of modern Wales. This path-breaking volume offers a vivid portrait of a natural contrarian who tilted against the forces of the establishment for the whole of his adult life. Known as the ‘Bard of Liberty’ or the ’little republican bard’, he moved in highly-politicized circles, embraced republicanism, founded the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, threw in his lot with Unitarians, promoted a sense of cultural nationalism, and supported the anti-slave trade campaign and the anti-war movement during years of war, oppression and cruelty.
The Economic Development of the Swansea Area
Author: D. J. PriceIndustrial Finance, 1830-1914
Author: P.L. CottrellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136597425
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment. An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of the growth and development of the British economy in one of its most dramatic phases. Philip Cottrell has written an impressively documented full-scale survey of this crucial period, discussing finance in the context of sweeping reforms of company law, unprecedented technological change and economic expansion, and the institutional effects of all of these. He is primarily concerned with English manufacturing industry but frequently refers, by way of comparison, to extractive industry, Scottish and Welsh developments and the economies of other West European countries. As well as providing a comprehensive overview, the book pays particular attention to coal, iron and textiles amongst the industries and, at the level of organization, to the emergence of the joint stock limited liability company and its gradual adoption by industrialists. The relationship between commercial banks and manufacturing receives detailed consideration and the role of internally accumulated funds and trade credit is discussed. this classic book was first published in 1980.
International Competition and Industrial Change
Author: Charles HarveyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714634104
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Presenting and Representing Environments
Author: Graham HumphrysPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402038143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The presentation and representation of the environment occurs throughout academia and across all news media. The strict protocols of science often clash with environmental information available from sources that dwell on subjective aesthetic, emotional and personal sensitivities. This book challenge the reader, as student, teacher, researcher or policy maker, to reflect critically on the ways that environments are studied, interpreted, presented and represented, in education and public policy.