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Civilizing the Urban

Popular Culture and Public Space in Merthyr, C.1870-1914

Author(s) Andy Croll

Hardback - £16.99

Language: English

Genre(s): History, Wales Studies

Series: Studies in Welsh History

December 2000 · 330 pages ·216x138mm

· Hardback - 9780708316375

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About the Author(s)

Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "boosters" to civilize the town's public spaces and its inhabitants and shows how this vision of Merthyr depended on the taming of popular culture.

Author(s): Andy Croll

Andy Croll is a Lecturer in History at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of several articles on urban culture and social order in nineteenth-century England and Wales.