| Description |
1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Gender in history |
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Gender in history.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Making a mannered metroplis and taming the 'perpetual fair' -- 'London's Mart': The crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London fairs -- 'Heroick Informers' and London spies: Religion, politeness, and reforming impulses in late seventeenth-and early eighteenth -century London -- Regulation and resistance: Wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs -- 'Dirty Molly' and 'The Greasier Kate': The feminine threat to urban order -- Locating the fair sex at work -- Clocks, monsters, and drolls: Gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs |
| Summary |
Rarely studied as vital to London's modernisation, urban fairs are a microcosm of London's transforming society demonstrating how metropolitan changes were popularly contested. This study contributes to our understanding of popular culture and modernisation in Britain during the formative years of its global empire. Drawing on legal records, popular literature, visual representations, and newspapers, it places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings of gender and social hierarchies, commerce, public morality, and the urban environment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bartholomew Fair -- History
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Bartholomew Fair fast |
| Subject |
Sex role -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
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Amusements -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
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Fairs -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
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Popular culture -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
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Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Amusements
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Fairs
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Popular culture
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Sex role
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England -- London
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online).
MaRLi UPSO 2015 Collection
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| ISBN |
9781781706442 |
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1781706441 |
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9781526103567 |
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1526103567 |
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