Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City

by Helen Tangires

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"