Meat, Commerce and the City. The London food market, 1800-1855

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Scholarly work dealing with the 19th century debate over the proposed relocation of the Smithfield livestock market from central London to Islington, culminating in the Smithfield Removal Act, 1851, and removal to the new Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1855. Analyses various elements in the debate touching on attitudes to the location of functions in urban contexts, the quality of the urban environment; diet; modernisation; etc. Has chapters: 'The Smithfield system in the nineteenth century - a grand complexus'; 'The Smithfield system in the nineteenth century - the consumers'; 'The Smithfield battle begins'; 'Smithfield's urban landscape - space in transition'; 'A gran odor runneth round - public health and Smithfield'; 'Necessarily cruel? Beef, brutes and women in Smithfield'; 'The final act, 1840-55'