{"product_id":"how-black-was-my-valley-brad-evans-9781913462840","title":"How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland","description":"\u003cb\u003eProviding a searing insight and honest portrayal of post-industrial communities ravaged by decades of abandonment, \u003ci\u003eHow Black Was My Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of lives defined by poverty, catastrophe and the fading dreams of better futures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Black Was My Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is a people's history of the former mining communities of South Wales. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together the personal with the political, it offers a damning depiction of the hardship and suffering, the tragedy and pain, as a politically abandoned people went from powering the British Empire and the Great Wars, to a broken post-industrial community, lost in time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt travels with devastating and yet humane insight across the dark shadows of the valley's history. In doing so, it deals with disaster and resistance; memory and landscapes of despair; the brutal past and the neglected present; hardship and poverty; unemployment and isolation; lack of opportunity and the normalisation of hopelessness; death and suffering; structural violence and everyday subjugation; onto the crises of white male subjectivity and the exponential rise in drug abuse and personal suicide, whose troubling effects can no longer be easily contained within its mountainous walls. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a story of resilience. Instead, readers are taken on a journey into an open wound, whose once silent screams can no longer be ignored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brad Evans\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913462846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913462840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.10d","brand":"Brad Evans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45065029288191,"sku":"9781913462840","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efa9bde8-eabb-4b92-aa07-cb4e880ccf9b.jpg?v=1712125425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-black-was-my-valley-brad-evans-9781913462840","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}