Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960 : Forgotten Livelihoods
1st ed. 2022
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3030980820
ISBN-13
9783030980825
Edition
1st ed. 2022
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 16th, 2022
Print length
353 Pages
Weight
484 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 21.00 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
European historySocial & cultural historyEconomic history
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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.
1. Introduction: Encounters and Trading Practices
2. Unearthing Livelihoods: Sámi Trade as an Active Livelihood
3. Dressed for Peddling: Dalkullor, Marketing and Practices of Tradition
4. Rag Collectors: Mobility and Barter in a Circular Flow of Goods
5. Unruly and Submissive Marketgoers: Peasants Practicing Trade and Forming Markets
6. Gifts, Feasts, and the Surplus of Friendship: Practices in a Remembered Economy of Petty Trading
7. Mobile Sex Trade: Fairs and the Livelihoods of Female Itinerant Sex Workers in Early Nineteenth-Century Finland
8. Exhibiting the Extraordinary Body: Six Itinerant Performers and Their Livelihood in the Nordic Countries, 1864-1912
9. "The Whole World Had the Sound of the Barrel Organ": Representations of Fairs in Finnish Newspapers and Fiction from the 1870s to the 1910s
10. "Threatening Livelihoods": Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire
11. Respectable and Masculine Livelihoods: Roma Stories of Horse Trading
12. Forced into Trade Out of Necessity: Working-Class Narratives on Petty Trade
13. Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland
14. Conclusions: Dealing with Difference
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