Title: An Anglican aristocracy
First published: 1996
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 elite, 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.
Subjects: History, Social conditions, Administration of estates, Aristocracy (Social class), Gentry, Wales, history
Places: Wales, Carmarthenshire, Carmarthenshire (Wales)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: HT653.G7 C73 1996