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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Griffiths, Richard, 1935- Entrepreneurial society of the Rhondda Valleys, 1840-1920. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2010 (OCoLC)587198827 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Griffiths |
ISBN: | 9780708322918 0708322913 9781783164172 1783164174 1299200699 9781299200692 |
OCLC Number: | 671928740 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Preface; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on surnames; The SouthWales Coal Industry; 'A dogged will, a fixity of purpose, a tenacity ofspirit': Siamps Thomas (1817-1901); 'A blunt, straightforward, and from head to feet anhonest man': Richard Mathias (1814-1890); The Rhondda Second Generation:William Henry Mathias (1845-1922), a Rhondda Notable; The Rhondda Second Generation:Some Other Major Figures; W.H. Mathias and Local Government, 1886-1919; 'The history of the undertaking is rather peculiar':The Cowbridge-Aberthaw Railway and the Rhondda Connection, 1886-1892 Further peculiar undertakings:Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr and the Parc Newydd EstateHeroism or Negligence? Siamps Thomas andtheTynewydd Disaster, 1877; The Albion Disaster, 1894; The 1893 Hauliers' Strike; The 1898 Strike; 'One of the greatest of the Welsh coalowners':William James Thomas's business interests, 1900-1925; 'Ynyshir's most noted citizen, the Principality's mostnoble benefactor':William James Thomas's manybenefactions, and his later years; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Responsibility: | Richard Griffiths. |
Abstract:
This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. The book looks at the various sources of wealth in the area - coal, railway building, possession of land in crucial areas, contracting, building, property development, shopkeeping - and the various origins of the first-generation entrepreneurs.
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