Rebecca's Country: A Welsh Story of Riot and Resistance - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:CalonISBN-13:9781915279743ISBN-10:1915279747UPC:9781915279743Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, Social HistoryBook Topic:Great Britain, 19th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCX40RVSFJ
Rebecca's Country: A Welsh Story of Riot and Resistance
A study of the Rebecca movement's fight against high taxation and poverty in nineteenth-century Wales. In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack the tollbooths. Inspired by the enigmatic biblical figure of Rebecca, they went on to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:CalonISBN-13:9781915279743ISBN-10:1915279747UPC:9781915279743Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, Modern, Social HistoryBook Topic:Great Britain, 19th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCX40RVSFJ
Rhian E. Jones is a writer, critic, and broadcaster from South Wales. She is co-editor of Red Pepper and writes for Tribune magazine. Her books include Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender; Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest, Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible; the anthology Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love...
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