Meat, commerce and the city : the London food market, 1800-1855

Author(s)

• Metcalfe, Robyn S.

Bibliographic Information

Meat, commerce and the city : the London food market, 1800-1855

by Robyn S. Metcalfe

（Perspectives in economic and social history, no. 18）

Pickering & Chatto, 2012

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-226) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 1 The Smithfield System in the Nineteenth Century: A Grand Complexus, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 2 The Smithfield System in the Nineteenth Century: the Consumers, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 3 The Smithfield Battle Begins, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 4 Smithfield's Urban Landscape: Space in Transition, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 5 'A Grateful Odor Runneth Round': Public Health and Smithfield, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 6 Necessarily Cruel? Beef, Brutes and Women in Smithfield, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 7 The Final Act: 1840-55, Robyn S. Metcalfe
• Chapter 102 Epilogue, Robyn S. Metcalfe

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Details

• NCID: BB08866203
• ISBN:
  • 9781848932906
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 248 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 942.12
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Smithfield Market -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Marketplaces -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Meat industry and trade -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Urban beautification -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA90056786