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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Leary, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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