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oapen-20.500.12657-573032022-07-14T02:59:55Z Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960 Ahlbeck, Jutta Östman, Ann-Catrin Stark, Eija history of labor history of consumption history of trade folklore ethnography Nordic history postcolonial studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research. Encounters and Practices embarks on hidden histories of survival, vulnerability, and conflict, but also discloses reciprocal relations, even friendships. 2022-07-13T12:26:40Z 2022-07-13T12:26:40Z 2022 book ONIX_20220713_9783030980801_5 9783030980801 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57303 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-98080-1.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-98080-1 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-98080-1 10.1007/978-3-030-98080-1 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 73bc48a7-a778-425b-bb5c-e24fea29fd2f 9783030980801 Palgrave Macmillan 353 Cham [...] open access
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This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research. Encounters and Practices embarks on hidden histories of survival, vulnerability, and conflict, but also discloses reciprocal relations, even friendships.
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