Hardback ISBN-13: 978-0-7083-2198-0
This title is the third volume in the Gwent County History series, which provides an authoritative history of the county of Gwent for the twenty-first century. Volumes I and II (of a proposed set of five volumes) have already been published (Vol. I: Gwent in Prehistory and Early History (2004); Vol. II The Age of the Marcher Lords (2008)).This present volume covers the early modern period from the creation of Monmouthshire by the Act of Union in 1536 to the beginnings of industrialisation in the later eighteenth century. It is beautifully illustrated with individual chapters written by authorities in their specialist fields of history, theology and geography.
Professor Prys Morgan is Emeritus Professor, Department of History at Swansea University. Dr. Madeleine Gray is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wales, Newport.