Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City

(Part of the Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics Series)

by Helen Tangires

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The untold story of America's wholesale food business.

In nineteenth-century America, municipal deregulation of the butcher trade and state-incorporated market companies gave rise to a flourishing wholesale trade. In Movable Markets, Helen Tangires describes the evolution of the American wholesale marketplace for fresh food, from its development as a bustling produce district in the heart of the city to its current indiscernible...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1421427478

ISBN13:9781421427478

Release Date:May 2019

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City

(Part of the Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics Series)

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