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Description for Secret Sins
Paperback. Highlighting the personal experiences of the individual, this book probes the private lives of people in order to fully appreciate the complex nature of society. It is a detailed analysis of sexuality and tension that seeks to overturn the cosy images of Wales and the Welsh. Num Pages: 327 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKWV; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780708325568
SKU
V9780708325568
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Russell Davies
Russell Davies was formerly Head of Marketing at Aberystwyth University; he is the author of Secret Sins: Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920 and Hope and Heartbreak: A Social History of Wales and the Welsh 1776-1870.
Reviews for Secret Sins
Painstakingly and thoroughly researched - Planet. Russell Davies' ambitious study is a major contribution to social and cultural history - Books in Wales It is a human and humane book-it succeeds admirably in its purpose in exposing cosy myths - The Western Mail