160 pp, small 4to, HC in dust jacket. Profusely illus in b&w and color with photos, drawings, maps. "From the earliest hunter-gatherers who made their mark on the landscape over 12,000 years ago, we follow the makers as they became farmers using t he first stone, then bronze and iron tools and weapons, and creating the massive hill forts that are such a feature of the Welsh countryside; the transition to Roman rule and the origins of town-making; the fundamental influence of Christia n i t y o n t he makers of Wales; the impact of the castle-building Normans; the far-reaching implications of the legislation of the 1530s; the transformation of a largely rural country during the industrial centuries; the impact of war and depres si on i n t he e a rl y twentieth century, and the making, unmaking, and remaking of Wales during the last fifty years." Dust jacket has minor edgewear/wrinkling. NF/NF

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