Rebecca’s Country

A Welsh Story of Riot and Resistance

Rhian E. Jones (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Calon (Verlag)
978-1-915279-74-3 (ISBN)

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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 figure of ‘Rebecca’, they went on to attack other symbols of injustice, redistribute wealth, and clash with both local authorities and the national government.

In Rebecca’s Country, historian Rhian E. Jones explores the background, chronology and achievements of the Rebecca movement. She offers a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and how they responded to the sweeping and severe changes of the early nineteenth century, telling the human stories behind this dramatic history.

Pronunciation Guide

Foreword

List of illustrations

Some main characters

Prologue: Rebecca’s roots

Part One: Rebecca rises

1 The final straw

2 Respectable radicals, rough music

3 Men in the middle

4 ‘Faithful to death’

Part Two: Taking the reins

5 A thorough revolution

6 Lovers of justice

7 Rebecca in the spotlight

Part Three: The summer of discontent

8 A losing battle

9 All but open rebellion

10 Rebecca goes south

11 Organised chaos

12 Ladies of letters

13 Out of the shadows

14 ‘More than one hundred thousand strong’

Part Four: At the point of a bayonet if necessary

15 Rebecca rules

16 Raising the stakes

17 Death at Hendy

18 Are the government mad enough?

Part Five: ‘We are all of us Rebeccas’

19 ‘Becca there is now dead’

20 From lawbreakers to legends

21 Throwing open the books

21 What Becca did next

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-915279-74-7 / 1915279747
ISBN-13	978-1-915279-74-3 / 9781915279743
Zustand	Neuware