Secret sins : sex, violence and society in Carmarthenshire, 1870-1920 / Russell Davies.
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TextPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xii, 327 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780708325575
- 0708325572
- 1306495024
- 9781306495028
- 9781783165452
- 1783165456
- Social problems -- Wales -- Carmarthenshire -- History
- Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- Social conditions
- Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- History
- Carmarthenshire (Wales) -- Social life and customs
- Social Conditions -- history
- Crime -- history
- Sex Offenses -- history
- Violence -- history
- Problèmes sociaux -- Pays de Galles -- Carmarthenshire -- Histoire
- British & Irish history
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- Southwest Wales
- c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1)
- c 1900 -- c 1914
- c 1800 to c 1900
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Manners and customs
- Social conditions
- Social problems
- Wales -- Carmarthenshire
- Criminaliteit
- Geweldsdelicten
- 306/.09429/65 21
- HN398.C376 D38 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint. Originally published 1996.
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Front Cover; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Private Lives, Public Witnesses: The Individual and Society in Carmarthenshire; A Sense of Place; A Psychic Crisis? The Social Contextof Mental Illness and Suicide; 'Secret Sins': Crime and Protest; Sexuality and Tension; Spiritual Skeletons: Religion, Superstitionand Popular Culture; Conclusion: Carmarthenshire and Welsh Society; Notes; Index; Back Cover.
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, 'Secret Sins'. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.
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