The perpetual fair : gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wohlcke, Anne, author.
Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014. ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Gender in history Gender in history.
Subject:	Bartholomew Fair -- History. Bartholomew Fair. Sex role -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Amusements -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Fairs -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Popular culture -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. Amusements. Fairs. Popular culture. Sex role. England -- London. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11754936

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Varying Form of Title:	Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London
Other authors / contributors:	UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online).
ISBN:	9781781706442 1781706441 9781526103567 1526103567 0719090911 9780719090912
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 0719090911 9780719090912

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