Rag Fair

Ole Münch is a research fellow for modern British history at the German Historical Institute London. He studied history and sociology in Göttingen and completed his doctorate at the University of Konstanz. In 2020, his dissertation was awarded the Wolfgang J. Mommsen Prize of the German Historical Institute London and the City of Konstanz Prize to Promote Early Career Researchers at the University of Konstanz.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: London Without an Ethnic LensPart I: Day-to-Day Life in an Intercultural Contact Zone: On Dealing with Uncertainty at the Rag FairChapter 1. Collecting Rags and Being Jewish: On the Interplay between Urban Folklore, Group Formation, and Social InequalityChapter 2. Transnational Lifestyles among Old Clothes: The Social Make-Up of the Long-Distance Trade Corridors to the Rag FairChapter 3. On the Advantages of Not Having to Belong: Or, the Significance of Jewish Emancipation for the Rag Fair’s ShopkeepersChapter 4. A ‘Wild’ Contact Zone: On the Integrative Dynamic of High-Risk BusinessPart II: Integration through ConflictChapter 5. The Cutler Street Conflict: Group Formation in the Dispute over the Old Clothes MarketChapter 6. The Agreeable Feeling of Shared Outrage: An Integrative Movement for Electoral RightsChapter 7. A Multireligious Neighbourhood Movement: Or, the Story of a Productive DefeatConclusion: On the History and Social Dynamics of an Intercultural Contact ZoneBibliographyIndex