This collection is the result of a large project, which started in 2015, and of many engaging discussions with scholars, who have contributed to our research over the years. We are indebted to the Academy of Finland and the Kone-foundation for funding our project Dealing with Difference: Peddlers, Consumers and Trading Encounters in Finland, 1840–1960. Thank you for financing and be…
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 belo…