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Paul O’Leary
Claiming the Streets [PDF ebook]
Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales c 1830-1880

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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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Table of 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

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9780708325421 ● File size 4.9 MB ● Publisher University of Wales Press ● Published 2012 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2635882 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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