Civilizing the Urban
Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, C.1870-1914
Will be published approx. on 13. December 2000
Book
Hardback
330 pages
978-0-7083-1637-5 (ISBN)
Description
Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "boosters" to civilize the town's public spaces and its inhabitants and shows how this vision of Merthyr depended on the taming of popular culture.
Reviews / Votes
'...this trenchant study...is meticulously researched, rigorous in its conceptual apparatus and lucidly written...Merthyr is a fascinating case study of the civic project...' English Historical Review 'Andy Croll has chosen to look at an unexplored aspect of the town, its transition from the shock town of the Welsh industrial revolution to a civic community with pretensions to urbanity. His gracefully written book is an engagement with the emerging historical problem of urban space...there is much here for historians of leisure, towns and of 19th-century British society in general.' History TodayMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-1637-5 (9780708316375)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Andy Croll is a Lecturer in History at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of several articles on urban culture and social order in nineteenth-century England and Wales.