John Benson and Laura Ugolini
Ashgate
Hardback
312
2006
This volume explores the cultural and social values attached to retail selling in various historical contexts and locations. The articles shed light on different aspects of an activity that is both 'mundane' and almost universal: that of selling commodities for a profit. This is a field of study that is of growing interest to scholars from a variety of disciplines but on which relatively little has yet been published.