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Introduction

This chapter presents the book’s broader arguments and isolates the specific ways in which the study makes a critical intervention in the historiography of modern Britain. It also introduces the different categories of source material, and then isolates four key motifs in the book. First, it demonstrates how the London restaurant raises important issues about geography and scale in the writing of the history, not merely of London, but of Britain and its relationship to the wider world. Second, it recovers categories of social actors (waiting staff, cooks, managers, and restaurant proprietors) who have been overlooked in the existing practices of social history. Third, this study of the restaurant requires us to acknowledge the service sector in the creation of metropolitan modernity. Fourth, it demonstrates the rewards of focusing on the more quotidian and congenial, as opposed to sensational or fraught, aspects of urban life.

Oxford University Press

Brenda Assael

Oxford Scholarship Online

2018

Title: Introduction

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This chapter presents the book’s broader arguments and isolates the specific ways in which the study makes a critical intervention in the historiography of modern Britain.

It also introduces the different categories of source material, and then isolates four key motifs in the book.

First, it demonstrates how the London restaurant raises important issues about geography and scale in the writing of the history, not merely of London, but of Britain and its relationship to the wider world.

Second, it recovers categories of social actors (waiting staff, cooks, managers, and restaurant proprietors) who have been overlooked in the existing practices of social history.

Third, this study of the restaurant requires us to acknowledge the service sector in the creation of metropolitan modernity.

Fourth, it demonstrates the rewards of focusing on the more quotidian and congenial, as opposed to sensational or fraught, aspects of urban life.

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