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Anne Wohlicke - The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London (Gender in History) - 9780719090912 - V9780719090912
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The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London (Gender in History)

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Description for The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London (Gender in History) Hardcover. This study places official discourse regarding urban amusement into the context of broader cultural understandings Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.

Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were important in the lives of ordinary Londoners as sites of women’s work, sociability, and local and national identity formation. 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender in History
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090912
SKU
V9780719090912
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Anne Wohlicke
Anne Wohlcke is Associate Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona -- .

Reviews for The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London (Gender in History)
‘Wohlcke’s book provides not only a new history of London’s fairs but also makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of women’s work and the debates on gender and the city. It is a book well worth reading.’ Louise Falcini, The English Historical Review, March 2016
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Goodreads reviews for The 'Perpetual Fair': Gender, Disorder and Urban Amusement in Eighteenth-Century London (Gender in History)


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