The Rebecca Riots: A Study in Agrarian Discontent - Softcover

Williams, David

 
9780708309339: The Rebecca Riots: A Study in Agrarian Discontent
Softcover
ISBN 10: 070830933X ISBN 13: 9780708309339
Publisher: University of Wales Press, 1998

Synopsis

The Rebecca Riots in west Wales began in the summer of 1839. They ceased as suddenly as they had started, and for three and a half years the countryside was undisturbed. Then, in the winter of 1842, they broke out again with greater violence. By day the countryside seemed quiet, but at night fantastically disguised horsemen, many dressed as women, careered along highways and through narrow lanes on their mysterious errands. The movement has been unusually been represented as the uprising of an oppressed peasantry, particularly against the burden of the toll-gates. Its causes, however, were far more deep-seated than that.

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About the Author

David Williams died in 1978. He lived and worked in Aberystwyth at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth as well as in Cardiff. He was born in Lan-y-Cefn, Pembrokeshire in 1900. He was the doyen of Welsh historians, publishing numerous classic history books.

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Publisher
University of Wales Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
070830933X
ISBN 13 
9780708309339
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
378

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