Entrepreneurial Society of the Rhondda Valleys 1840-1920, The – Power and Influence in the Porth-Pontypridd Region

£19.99

This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. The book looks at the various sources of wealth in the area – coal owning, railway building, possession of land in crucial areas, contracting, building, property development, shopkeeping – and at the various origins from which the first-generation entrepreneurs came.

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Dyma’r llyfr cyntaf i archwilio’r gymdeithas entrepreneuraidd yng nghymoedd de Cymru. Mae’r llyfr yn edrych ar ffynonellau cyfoeth amrywiol yr ardal – y pyllau glo, adeiladu rheilffyrdd, meddiannu tir mewn ardaloedd o bwys, contractio, adeiladu, datblygu eiddo, cadw siop.
This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. The book looks at the various sources of wealth in the area – coal owning, railway building, possession of land in crucial areas, contracting, building, property development, shopkeeping – and at the various origins from which the first-generation entrepreneurs came.