Lucy Taylor is Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

By avoiding an already conventional polarisation between celebration and condemnation, Lucy Taylor succeeds in creating a new theoretical ground for understanding Y Wladfa. Starting from a recognition of the ambiguity of the Welsh as both colonised and colonisers, she re-writes the history of the Patagonian venture, challenging the long hegemonic status of the Welsh and the Welsh language, and incorporating new voices and testimonies. Acknowledging the implication of the Welsh in global colonialism is a debt that contemporary and more politically mature Wales cannot afford to ignore. Taylors theoretical and empirical work goes a long way towards paying that debt. As a fundamental contribution to the historiography of Y Wladfa, Taylors book at the same time redraws the entire map on which we can locate Wales not only during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in todays globalised world.

• Chapter One: Introduction: Where the Welsh AreChapter Two: Theorizing Y WladfaChapter Three: Y Wladfa in Historical and Global PerspectiveChapter Four: Possession in Y WladfaChapter Five: Barbarization and the Myth of FriendshipChapter Six: Y Wladfa and AssimilationChapter Seven: Y Wladfa, Assimilation and Coloniality TodayChapter Eight: Conclusion – and Ways ForwardsBibliography

Lucy Taylor is Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

By avoiding an already conventional polarisation between celebration and condemnation, Lucy Taylor succeeds in creating a new theoretical ground for understanding Y Wladfa. Starting from a recognition of the ambiguity of the Welsh as both colonised and colonisers, she re-writes the history of the Patagonian venture, challenging the long hegemonic status of the Welsh and the Welsh language, and incorporating new voices and testimonies. Acknowledging the implication of the Welsh in global colonialism is a debt that contemporary and more politically mature Wales cannot afford to ignore. Taylors theoretical and empirical work goes a long way towards paying that debt. As a fundamental contribution to the historiography of Y Wladfa, Taylors book at the same time redraws the entire map on which we can locate Wales not only during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in todays globalised world.

• Chapter One: Introduction: Where the Welsh AreChapter Two: Theorizing Y WladfaChapter Three: Y Wladfa in Historical and Global PerspectiveChapter Four: Possession in Y WladfaChapter Five: Barbarization and the Myth of FriendshipChapter Six: Y Wladfa and AssimilationChapter Seven: Y Wladfa, Assimilation and Coloniality TodayChapter Eight: Conclusion – and Ways ForwardsBibliography