History of pedlars in Europe
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History of pedlars in Europe
Polity Press, 1996
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Histoire du colportage en Europe, XVe-XIXe siècle
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this, the first sustained account of pedlars and peddling, Laurence Fontaine argues that pedlars and the networks they built up played a crucial role in the birth of the modern European economy.
Table of Contents
Introduction. 1. Peddling and Major Trade Between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
2. The Eighteenth Century: a Return to the Regional Areas.
3. The Eighteenth Century: the Networks of Booksellers and Book Pedlars in Southern Europe.
4. A Flexible Typology.
5. In the Village: Reasons for Itinerancy and the Structures Supporting It.
6. Credit and Social Relationships.
7. The Demise of the Profession.
8. The Culture of Itinerancy.
9. A Civilised Business?.
Conclusion.
Appendix.
Notes.
Index.
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