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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511674003321

Autore

O'Leary Paul

Titolo

Claiming the streets : processions and urban culture in South Wales, c. 1830-1880 / / Paul O'Leary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-78316-275-9

1-299-20147-4

0-7083-2542-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

307

942.94081

Soggetti

Processions - Wales, South - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Wales, South Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.