Anne Wohlcke is Associate Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Making a mannered metropolis and taming the 'perpetual fair' 1. 'London's Mart': the crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London 2. 'Heroick informers' and London spies: religion, politeness and reforming impulses in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century London 3. Regulation and resistance: wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs 4. 'Dirty Molly' and 'the greasier Kate': the feminine threat to urban order 5. Locating the fair sex at work 6. Clocks, monsters, and drolls: gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs Conclusion Bibliography Index
Introduction: Making a mannered metropolis and taming the 'perpetual fair' 1. 'London's Mart': the crowds and culture of eighteenth-century London 2. 'Heroick informers' and London spies: religion, politeness and reforming impulses in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century London 3. Regulation and resistance: wayward apprentices and other 'evil disposed persons' at London's fairs 4. 'Dirty Molly' and 'the greasier Kate': the feminine threat to urban order 5. Locating the fair sex at work 6. Clocks, monsters, and drolls: gender, race, nation, and the amusements of London fairs Conclusion Bibliography Index
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