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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century.
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ISBN: 1805110411 180511039X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,

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"This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature--ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints--in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature."--

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Street literature --- History


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Economic life of Mexican beach vendors : Alcapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas
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ISBN: 1283834510 0739177656 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books,

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Based on the life histories of 166 beach vendors in three Mexican tourist centers-men and women whose income-generating activities form part of the informal or semi-informal economy-Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors explores their educational and employment aspirations and their family connections to vending. It also addresses how the vendors have been affected by the current economic recession, their residential segregation in neighborhoods far from the tourist zones, and the special cases of indigenous and of women

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Peddlers --- Street vendors --- Tourism


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A cat & mouse affair : exploring sustainable measures of resolving the vendor-local authority conflict : a case of Marondera Municipality, Zimbabwe
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ISBN: 1779065221 Year: 2018 Publisher: Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Limited,

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"Clashes between vendors and authorities have become a common feature of our society. It is really a fact that vending has come with it some undesirable effects such a chaotic and disorderly business practices. Nevertheless, we cannot afford to turn a blind eye on vending or even eradicate it, especially when taking into account the fact that our employment levels are on the minimum side. In fact, most families have been sustained through vending during economic hard times of our society. This situation whereby the relationship between vendors and the local authorities is reminiscent of a 'cat and mouse affair' is unsustainable and does not benefit anyone. High costs are incurred in carrying out the fights, property at times is destroyed, there are injuries and in some rare cases fatalities and arrests are made. This book sought to offer practical solutions of how vending can get organised and by systematic much to the benefit our society socially and economically. Lessons were taken from other cases the world over. Entrepreneurs, the policy maker, the civic society and students will find this book much enlightening and interesting. Its contribution adds much value towards sustainable efforts of transforming Zimbabwe's economy and society to a progressive one"--Back cover.

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Street vendors --- Zimbabwe.


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Phil, the fiddler
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Year: 2001 Publisher: [South Bend, IN] : [Salt Lake City, Utah] : Infomotions, Inc. ; Project Gutenburg,

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Boys --- Street life


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Electric Interurbans and the American People
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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Perfect for railfans, Electric Interurbans and the American People is a comprehensive contribution for those who love the flanged wheel.

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Street-railroads --- History.


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A garland of bones
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ISBN: 0300241119 9780300241112 9780300222807 Year: 2019 Publisher: New Haven London

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An intimate portrait of India's child runaways, and the sociopolitical forces shaping their lives This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, and considers histories of landlessness and debt servitude in narratives of child dislocation. The resulting work is an original perspective on the sociological trends in postcolonial India and a unique treatment of a population of individuals who live on the margin of society.


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Street art in the Middle East
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ISBN: 1788317238 1786736055 1786726009 9781786726001 9781786736055 9781788317238 9781784539900 1784539902 Year: 2019 Publisher: London

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"Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this conversation has generalised street art and identified it as a singular form with identical styles and objectives throughout the region. Street art's purpose is, however, defined by the socio-cultural circumstances of its production. Middle Eastern artists thus adopt distinctive methods in creating their individual work and responding to their individual environments. Here, in this new book, Sabrina De Turk employs rigorous visual analysis to explore the diversity of Middle Eastern street art and uses case studies of countries as varied as Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain and Oman to illustrate how geographic specifics impact upon its function and aesthetic. Her book will be of significant interest to scholars specialising in art from the Middle East and North Africa and those who bring an interdisciplinary perspective to Middle East studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero
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ISBN: 066576670X Year: 2003 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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The letters of Brendan Behan
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ISBN: 0773563245 9780773563247 0773508880 9780773508880 Year: 1992 Publisher: Montreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press

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Behan's friends and relatives, and people in his literary circle, have claimed he was not a prolific letter-writer. Even Behan himself has been "ed as saying, "Whoever writes my biography will get no help from my letters. I never write any." But in fact there is a substantial body of letters to and from Behan, who not only corresponded with seventeen periodicals but wrote to relatives, friends, IRA colleagues, civil servants, theatrical directors, publicans, and complete strangers. As in the case of Oscar Wilde, the search for Behan's letters has been hampered by their dispersal to widely scattered and unexpected places. The surviving letters that Mikhail was able to locate, however, proved well worth the trouble it took to uncover them. In addition to providing a vital record of one of the giants of Irish literature, Behan's letters -- especially those written without thought of publication -- give a far better sense of his exuberant verbal style than his plays or poetry. Mikhail introduces each letter and explains the circumstances in which it was written. He also annotates the letters, elucidating difficulties, noting the location and ownership of the letters whenever possible, and giving biographical information about the correspondents. The Letters of Brendan Behan also includes four poems that appear here for the first time, as well as extracts from early writings never before published. Numerous letters to editors, refused publication because of their outspokenness, are published here for the first time, and others, previously cut or censored, now appear in their original form. For anyone interested in Irish literature or contemporary drama -- and especially for readers and scholars of Behan's work -- The Letters of Brendan Behan is an invaluable collection.


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A Week in Wall Street By One Who Knows
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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