Taverner Charlie (Research Fellow Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin)
Taverner Charlie (Research Fellow Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin) - Street Food Hawkers And The History Of London - Hardcover
Taverner Charlie (Research Fellow Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin) - Street Food Hawkers And The History Of London - Hardcover
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Description: This is the story of the women men boys and girls who hawked oysters cherries cabbages and pies on London's streets feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working lives of these poor traders following them from the back alleys and cramped rooms they called home to the taverns bridges and corners where they set up shop. It describes fast - moving food chains heaving markets rumbling wheelbarrows scruffy donkeys rushing traffic and advertising cries that echoed through the city. The first long - term comprehensive history of street selling in London the book explores the intricacies of hawkers work and their profound social economic and cultural importance to metropolitan life between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on the largest collection of archival and published evidence to date it not only highlights the crucial roles street sellers played in fuelling the capital's expansion but argues that their endurance over three centuries raises challenging questions about major narratives and processes of urban history like modernization the rise of retail and the improvement of the streets. And it examines why the street food of the past - like the continuing vitality of street vendors around the world - is so different to the fashionable street food ubiquitous across London today.
Title: Street Food Hawkers And The History Of London
Author(s): Taverner Charlie (Research Fellow Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192846945
Pages: 256 Pages, 17 Black And White Figures/Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/12/2023
Category: Food & Society
Description: This is the story of the women men boys and girls who hawked oysters cherries cabbages and pies on London's streets feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working lives of these poor traders following them from the back alleys and cramped rooms they called home to the taverns bridges and corners where they set up shop. It describes fast - moving food chains heaving markets rumbling wheelbarrows scruffy donkeys rushing traffic and advertising cries that echoed through the city. The first long - term comprehensive history of street selling in London the book explores the intricacies of hawkers work and their profound social economic and cultural importance to metropolitan life between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on the largest collection of archival and published evidence to date it not only highlights the crucial roles street sellers played in fuelling the capital's expansion but argues that their endurance over three centuries raises challenging questions about major narratives and processes of urban history like modernization the rise of retail and the improvement of the streets. And it examines why the street food of the past - like the continuing vitality of street vendors around the world - is so different to the fashionable street food ubiquitous across London today.
Title: Street Food Hawkers And The History Of London
Author(s): Taverner Charlie (Research Fellow Research Fellow Trinity College Dublin)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192846945
Pages: 256 Pages, 17 Black And White Figures/Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/12/2023
Category: Food & Society
