Claiming the streets : processions and urban culture in South Wales, c. 1830-1880 /
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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=495487 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Introduction; Street Processions and Ritual in the Victorian Town; Town and Region: the Urban Context; Protest, Processions and Stability; Ordering the Streets: Friendly Society Processions; Sobering the Streets: Temperance and Teetotal Processions; Sacralising the Streets: Religion and Urban Space; Diversity on the Streets: Corpus Christi and the Salvation Armyin the 1870s; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index