Charlie Taverner

Street Food (eBook, PDF)

Hawkers and the History of London

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192662439
• Artikelnr.: 67166934

Autorenporträt

Charlie Taverner is a social historian of food and cities. After receiving a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, he held an Economic History Society postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. He is currently a research fellow on the ERC-funded FoodCult project, based at Trinity College Dublin. His research has appeared in journals such as History Workshop and Urban History. Previously, Charlie worked as a business and agricultural journalist, starting out on the staff of the magazine Farmers Weekly.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Note to the reader
Introduction: Hawkers and the history of London
Part 1: People
Fishwives and costermongers
All sorts of Londoners
The status of street sellers
Hawkers at home
Part 2: Workers
Gutter merchants
Aristocracy of the kerb
The costermonger class
Part 3: Street food
Garden city
Perishing commodities
As regular as the weather permits
Moveable feasts
The metropolitan diet
Part 4: Markets
Liberty of the markets
In defence of hawkers
Friends of the poor
Part 5: Retailers
About the streets
Keeping score
Carnivals of shopping
Part 6: Tools
Shops on their heads
Barrow wheelers
The coster's companion
Part 7: Traffic
Broken pavements
Around the clock
Crossing the road
Part 8: Nuisances
The costermongers' charter
Infamous wretches
Preventing free passage
Part 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
Index