This volume covers the history of, and the prospects for, the United Nations. In particular, it explores the contributions made by Welshmen.
This book offers a broad historical survey of Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to television and pop culture in the early twenty-first century. The... Læs mere
Cyfrol am hanes Cymry America yng nghanol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, trwy lygaid y wasg gyfnodol Gymraeg.
Reflecting his own colourful past as a cowboy, international mercenary and hero of the Boer War, Owen Rhoscomyl created a heroic, martial and masculine image of the Welsh nation through his adventure fiction, popular history and public spectacle.
Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected breaks new ground by revealing the place of Wales in the imagination of the writer known as 'the world's number one storyteller'.
This is the first book on the office of the Welsh Language Commissioner, set in the context of the office of language commissioner internationally.
Christoph Hein is widely regarded as one of the most important writers to emerge from the former GDR. This volume contains an interview with Hein, a previously unpublished prose piece by him, an up-to-date biography and critical articles which examine individual texts in detail.
Does the market promote its own intrinsic and selfish values, or does it merely reflect the values of society? This collection offers reports from all areas of... Læs mere
This text looks at the Ben Bowen phenomenon as a product both of his view of himself as a great poet and a Wales that fed that assumption. It traces his escape from a miner's life in the... Læs mere
Chaucer’s Gifts applies the theoretical approaches of economic anthropology to the Canterbury Tales, to show that in Chaucer’s world the exchange of gifts is as prevalent as the purchase of commodities, and that social relations are as important as money and the market.
The first book-length study of the work of the bilingual Welsh poet and novelist Christopher Meredith, best-known for his depiction of post-industrial south-east Wales.
A complete illustrated and scholarly guide to the religious houses of medieval Wales, from the Norman Conquest to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.