Cheap Street

Cheap Street

Victoria Kelley

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Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de edición:
2022
Materia
Historia de la economía
ISBN:
9781526163851
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From around 1850, London’s street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London’s lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies.

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