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Intelligent Town: An Urban History of Swansea, 1780-1855 (Studies in Welsh History)
Intelligent Town is the first full-length study of Swanseas urban development from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Louise Miskell tells the little-known story of how Swansea gained an unrivaled position of influence as an urban centerwhich led to its brief claim as the metropolis of Wales, and how it then lost this status in the face of rapid urban development elsewhere in Wales. As such Read more