| Description |
1 online resource (271 pages) |
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The History of Retailing and Consumption |
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History of retailing and consumption.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of colour plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Food hawkers from representation to reality; Food hawking in food history; Representation of selling food on the street and the problem of the 'picturesque'; The social and economic implications of street food selling; Notes; 1 Representations of food hawkers in ancient Rome; Food hawkers and the urban economy: a comparative perspective; Ancient literary representations; Artistic representations |
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ConclusionNotes; 2 Quodlibets and fricassées: Food in musical settings of street cries in early modern London; Introduction; Context; London; Words and music; Reception; Performance; Notes; 3 Street cries on the frozen Thames: Food hawkers at London frost fairs, 1608-1814; Notes; 4 Food, markets and people: Selling perishables in urban markets in pre-industrial Holland and England; Introduction; Food markets and market governance; The impact of guild memberships; Further 'costs of formality'; Time constraints; Regulating market space; Market regulation and access: some concluding thoughts |
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Notes5 Food selling and urban space in early modern Naples; Images of food hawkers; Taxing consumption on the streets; Conclusion: food hawkers in the archives; Notes; 6 The myth of la belle Madeleine: Street culture and celebrity in nineteenth-century Paris; The maid from Nanterre; The many faces of la belle Madeleine; The petits métiers in retreat (1830-1870); Madeleine in the museum (1830-1870); Conclusion; Notes; 7 The street food sector in Vietnam: Serious business for female entrepreneurs; Introduction; The street food sector in Hanoi and Hue; Entrepreneurial activities and success |
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Connections and competitivenessCareer perspectives; Concluding remarks; Notes; 8 Rethinking street foods: Street food hospitality in contemporary Calcutta; Calcutta: city, foodscape and street food vendors; Worship, cleanliness and street foods; Networks of regulations and conventions: street food and 'public/private'; Normal Bengali home food (ghoroa khabar); The household of the Rays; Measuring normality; Normal everyday food as emulation; Street food hospitality: mediating ambiguities; Notes; 9 Negotiating gendered spatial boundaries: Women's food hawking in Penang, Malaysia; Introduction |
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Gender as a spatial practiceMalaysian food hawking and its related policies; The outline of the study; The respondents and vending sites; Reasons to enter food hawking; Gendered constructions of food hawking and place; Negotiating boundaries; Gendering Penang hawker policies; Conclusions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index; colour plates |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Issuing Body |
956998593 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Street-food vendors (Persons) -- History
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Street vendors -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
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Street-food vendors (Persons)
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Street vendors
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Speise
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Straßenverkauf
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Straßenverkäufer
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Verbraucher
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heuvel, Danielle van den
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| ISBN |
9781317134350 |
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1317134354 |
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