The Making of a Ruling Class
Subtitle: The Glamorgan Gentry 16401790
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780521521949
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Social classes; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Western Europe - General; History; History - General History; History: World; South Wales; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Wales; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain
First sentence: The county of Glamorgan was created in the time of Henry VIII by merging two lordships: to Glamorgan proper was added the lordship of Gower and Kilvey, which lay west of the river Tawe.