Jenkins, Geraint H.: A Concise History of Wales.(Book review)

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Jenkins, Geraint H. A Concise History of Wales New York: Cambridge University Press 360 pp., $24.99, ISBN 0-5215-3071-7 Publication Date: January 2007

In A Concise History of Wales, Geraint H. Jenkins, director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, condenses some 225,000 years of human habitation in Wales into slightly more than three hundred pages of text. Jenkins strives for comprehensiveness and largely succeeds, covering the political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments that shaped Wales's history. That said, this is no dry-as-dust ...

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