Rag fair : a different migration history of London's East End, 1780-1850

Ole Münch ; translated by Angela Davies and Jozef van der Voort

"This book is about the 'Rag Fair' street market, which was situated in the Jewish quarter of early Victorian London. By recounting the market's history (1780-1850), I demonstrate that it was not only a place of economic exchange but also an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants and natives met and mingled. The main aim of my study is to reconstruct the varied group building processes at work in the Rag Fair, some of which cut across ethnic divides. To understand the social mechanisms behind these processes, I draw on approaches from fields as diverse as migration history, economic history, 'history from below', economic anthropology, and the sociology of social movements."

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Alternative title:	Cutler Street Market: interkultureller Austausch im Londoner East End 1780-1850
Year of publication:	2025
Authors:	Münch, Ole
Other Persons:	Davies, Angela (translator) ; Voort, Jozef van der (translator)
Publisher:	New York : berghahn
Subject:	Ambulanter Handel \| Itinerant trade \| Interkulturelle Beziehungen \| Cross-cultural relations \| Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| Juden \| Jews \| Iren \| Irish (People) \| Geschichte \| History \| London
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	viii, 323 Seiten Illustrationen
Series:	Studies in British and imperial history : published for the German Historical Institute London. - New York, NY : Berghahn, ZDB-ID 2755860-5. - Vol. volume 10
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction. London Without an Ethnic Lens -- Collecting Rags and Being Jewish: On the Interplay between Urban Folklore, Group Formation, and Social Inequality -- Transnational Lifestyles among Old Clothes: The Social Make-Up of the Long-Distance Trade Corridors to the Rag Fair -- On the Advantages of Not Having to Belong: Or, the Significance of Jewish Emancipation for the Rag Fair's Shopkeepers -- A 'Wild' Contact Zone: On the Integrative Dynamic of High-Risk Business -- The Cutler Street Conflict: Group Formation in the Dispute over the Old Clothes Market -- The Agreeable Feeling of Shared Outrage: An Integrative Movement for Electoral Rights -- A Multireligious Neighbourhood Movement: Or, the Story of a Productive Defeat -- Conclusion. On the History and Social Dynamics of an Intercultural Contact Zone.
ISBN:	978-1-80539-689-5 ; 978-1-80539-690-1 ; 978-1-80539-691-8
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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