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Food hawkers : selling in the streets from antiquity to the present

Title
Food hawkers : selling in the streets from antiquity to the present / edited by Melissa Calaresu and Danielle van den Heuvel.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016]

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Additional Authors
  • Calaresu, Melissa
  • Heuvel, Danielle van den
Description
xvi, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The history of retailing and consumption
Uniform Title
History of retailing and consumption.
Subject
  • Street-food vendors > History
  • Street vendors > History
  • Street-food vendors
  • Street vendors
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-238) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Food hawkers from representation to reality / Melissa Calaresu and Danielle van den Heuvel -- Representations of food hawkers in ancient Rome / Claire Holleran -- Quodlibets and fricassées : food in musical settings of street cries in early modern London / Deborah L. Krohn -- Street cries on the frozen Thames : food hawkers at London frost fairs, 1608-1814 / Ivan Day -- Food, markets and people : selling perishables in urban markets in pre-industrial Holland and England / Danielle van den Heuvel -- Food selling and urban space in early modern Naples / Melissa Calaresu -- The myth of la belle Madeleine : street culture and celebrity in nineteenth-century Paris / Tom Stammers -- The street food sector in Vietnam : serious business for female entrepreneurs / Annemarie M.F. Hiemstra -- Rethinking street foods : street food hospitality in contemporary Calcutta / Manpreet K. Janeja -- Negotiating gendered spatial boundaries : women's food hawking in Penang, Malaysia / Anja K. Franck.
ISBN
  • 9781409450429 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1409450422 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781409450436 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472404008 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2015038653
  • 99970257989
OCLC
  • ocn927141283
  • 927141283
  • SCSB-9403202
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries