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Street food : hawkers and the history of London /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taverner, Charlie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Peddlers > England > London > History.
Street-food vendors (Persons) > England > London > History.
Street food > England > London > History.
Colporteurs > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Vendeurs d'aliments de rue > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Alimentation de rue > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire.
Peddlers
Street food
Street-food vendors (Persons)
England > London
Business & Management.
Industry.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Note to the Reader
  • Introduction: Hawkers and the history of London
  • Historians and hawkers
  • Medieval capital to metropolis
  • 1. People
  • Fishwives and costermongers
  • All sorts of Londoners
  • The status of street sellers
  • Hawkers at home
  • 2. Workers
  • Gutter merchants
  • Aristocracy of the kerb
  • The costermonger class
  • 3. Street food
  • Garden city
  • Perishing commodities
  • As regular as the weather permits
  • Movable feasts
  • The metropolitan diet
  • 4. Markets
  • Liberty of the markets
  • In defence of hawkers
  • Friends of the poor
  • 5. Retailers
  • About the streets
  • Keeping score
  • Carnivals of shopping
  • 6. Tools
  • Shops on their heads
  • Barrow wheelers
  • The coster's companion
  • 7. Traffic
  • Broken pavements
  • Around the clock
  • Crossing the road
  • 8. Nuisances
  • The costermongers' charter
  • Infamous wretches
  • Preventing free passage
  • 9. Voices
  • Tortures of the ear
  • The crying art
  • Declaring the seasons
  • The end of the cries?
  • Epilogue: The return of street food
  • Curating street food
  • Hawkers past and present
  • Notes
  • Appendix: Identifying street sellers, 1600-1825
  • Bibliography
  • Index.