Street Criers

Author : Hanchao Lu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751483
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Criers written by Hanchao Lu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various factors that contribute to almsgiving, the role of gender in begging, and street people and Communist politics. Panoramically, the reader will see that the culture and institution of Chinese mendicancy, which had its origins in earlier centuries, remained remarkably consistent through time and space and that there were perennial and lively interactions between the world of beggars and mainstream society.

Author : Andrew White Tuer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day written by Andrew White Tuer and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew White Tuer
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day written by Andrew White Tuer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day: With Heaps of Quaint Cuts Including Hand-coloured Frontispiece" by Andrew White Tuer is a fascinating book that offers modern readers a chance to go back in time. Written in the 19th century, this book evokes the atmosphere of what walking through the streets of London during a time that's long since passed might have been like.

Author : Jeffrey Ian Ross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000195058
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Street Culture written by Jeffrey Ian Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handbook of Street Culture integrates and reviews current scholarship regarding the history, types, and contexts of the concept of street culture. It is comprehensive and international in its treatment of the subject of street culture. Street culture includes many subtypes, situations, locations, and participants, and these are explored in the various chapters included in this book. Street culture varies based on numerous factors including capitalism, market societies, policing, ethnicity, and race but also advances in technology. The book is divided into four major sections: Actors and street culture, Activities connected to street culture, The centrality of crime to street culture, and Representations of street culture. Contributors are well respected and recognized international scholars in their fields. They draw upon contemporary scholarship produced in the social sciences, arts, and humanities in order to communicate their understanding of street culture. The book provides a comprehensive and accessible approach to the subject of street culture through the lens of an inter- and/or multidisciplinary perspective. It is also intersectional in its approach and consideration of the subject and phenomenon of street culture.

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Publisher : US History Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1603540393
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State written by and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew White Tuer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London cries: with six charming children (&c.). written by Andrew White Tuer and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Langstaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Cross Buns, and Other Old Street Cries written by John Langstaff and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of old English street cries used by strawberry sellers, knife-grinders, and others selling their wares.

Author : Oskar Jensen
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 189101143X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London written by Oskar Jensen and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says “Fugitive Slaves” ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city’s dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London’s most compelling period (1780–1870). Piecing together contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and journal entries, historian Oskar Jensen follows the harrowing, hopeful journeys of the city’s poor: children, immigrants, street performers, thieves, and sex workers, all diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, and origin. For the first time, their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history, with its deep inequality that bears an astonishing resemblance to our own era’s divides.

Author : Natasha Korda
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220431X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labors Lost written by Natasha Korda and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives, daughters, and widows of theater people who worked actively alongside their male kin; and immigrant women who fueled the fashion-driven stage with a range of newfangled skills and commodities. Combining archival research on these and other women who worked in and around the playhouses with revisionist readings of canonical and lesser-known plays, Labors Lost retrieves this lost history by detailing the diverse ways women participated in the work of playing, and the ways male players and playwrights in turn helped to shape the cultural meanings of women's work. Far from a marginal phenomenon, the gendered division of theatrical labor was crucial to the rise of the commercial theaters in London and had an influence on the material culture of the stage and the dramatic works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Brian Ladd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022667813X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Streets of Europe written by Brian Ladd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a sensory history and a sensual story told from street level . . . a clear and powerful account of the transformation of street life in Europe.” —Leora Auslander, author of Taste and Power Merchants’ shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities—London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna—Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today’s world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life. “[A] dazzlingly kaleidoscopic overview of city life, city living, and city dying.” —Judith Flanders, author of The Invention of Murder