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Claiming the streets : processions and urban culture in South Wales, c. 1830-1880 / Paul O'Leary.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Leary, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Processions--Wales, South--History--19th century.
- Processions.
- Wales, South--Social life and customs.
- Wales, South.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783162758
- 1783162759
- 9781299201477
- 1299201474
- 9780708325421
- 0708325424
- OCLC:
- 815671158
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