Claiming the Streets
Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales c 1830-1880
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2012
288 pages
978-0-7083-2542-1 (ISBN)
Description
Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town, and this book examines how those events created new civic identities in the growing towns of nineteenth-century south Wales.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
4,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2542-1 (9780708325421)
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Book
10/2012
University of Wales Press
€44.00
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Person
Dr Paul O'Leary is senior lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University. He is joint editor of the Welsh History Review.
Content
Introduction Chapter 1 Street Processions and Ritual in the Victorian Town Chapter 2 Town and Region: the Urban Context Chapter 3 Processions, Protest and Stability Chapter 4 Ordering the Streets: Friendly Society Processions Chapter 5 Sobering the Streets: Temperance and Teetotal Processions Chapter 6 Sacralizing the Streets: Religion and Urban Space Chapter 7 Diversity on the Streets: Corpus Christi and the Salvation Army in the 1870s Conclusion
