{"product_id":"markets-and-their-actors-in-tanja-skambraks-9783110642216","title":"Markets and Their Actors in the Late Middle Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e Markets feature prominently in recent research of premodern historians as well as economists. Discussions cover the questions, for example, how a market can be grasp as a place, an event or a mechanism of exchange, or whether premodern economies have just hosted markets or if some of them can even be regarded as market economies. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The proposed volume will now turn to the agents who forged and connected markets. Exchange was done between persons and with the help of persons: Artisans, retailers and poor people tried to better their living conditions by engaging on the market, merchants interconnected different markets, urban personnel (such as brokers, men working at the public scales, or the town council as a whole) regulated and facilitated exchange. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e By focusing on economic practices and the agents who performed them, the volume aims at analyzing the specific characteristics of premodern markets, the reasons why people became active on the market and the institutions which formed exchange processes and were in turn shaped by them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tanja Skambraks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3110642212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783110642216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.55d","brand":"Tanja Skambraks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244275646719,"sku":"9783110642216","price":104.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eeb93f1c-b22c-4cc0-9146-8f5c30776fe5.jpg?v=1758135358","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/markets-and-their-actors-in-tanja-skambraks-9783110642216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}