This volume is concerned with markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. The chapters focus upon both urban and rura

Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public de

A collection of thirteen essays examining how 'the market' has been perceived, represented and experienced differently in different epochs.

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular fie

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