Rag Fair

Rag Fair

A Different Migration History of London's East End, 1780-1850

Muench, Ole

Berghahn Books

10/2024

384

Dura

9781805396895

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments



Introduction: London Without an Ethnic Lens



Part I: Day-to-Day Life in an Intercultural Contact Zone: On Dealing with Uncertainty at the Rag Fair



Chapter 1. Collecting Rags and Being Jewish: On the Interplay between Urban Folklore, Group Formation, and Social Inequality

Chapter 2. Transnational Lifestyles among Old Clothes: The Social Make-Up of the Long-Distance Trade Corridors to the Rag Fair

Chapter 3. On the Advantages of Not Having to Belong: Or, the Significance of Jewish Emancipation for the Rag Fair's Shopkeepers

Chapter 4. A 'Wild' Contact Zone: On the Integrative Dynamic of High-Risk Business



Part II: Integration through Conflict



Chapter 5. The Cutler Street Conflict: Group Formation in the Dispute over the Old Clothes Market

Chapter 6. The Agreeable Feeling of Shared Outrage: An Integrative Movement for Electoral Rights

Chapter 7. A Multireligious Neighbourhood Movement: Or, the Story of a Productive Defeat



Conclusion: On the History and Social Dynamics of an Intercultural Contact Zone



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History: 18th/19th Century, Cultural Studies (General), Mobility Studies, Jewish Studies