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Part I Contexts 2. The origins of retailing: the ancient and classical worlds- Onno Van Nijf (Groningen) 3. Retailing before consumerism (medieval and early modern) -Martha Howell (Columbia) 4. From consumer revolution to mass market - Bruno Blonde (Antwerp) 5. Retailing and the state: managing the market - Jonathan Bean / Frank Tretmann (Birkbeck) / Uwe Spiekermann (German Historical Institute) 6. Retailing and the city: urban spaces and urban form - Richard Longstreth (George Washington) / Cle Lesger (Amsterdam) 7. Retailing in the internet age -Mary Lou Roberts (Harvard Extension School) 8. Selling second hand - the fall and rise of used goods? - Beverly Lemire (Guelph) Part II Spaces and Places 9. Markets and market halls - Manel Guardia (Barcelona) / Helen Tangires (National Gallery of Art in Washington) 10. High Street / Main Street - Ian Mitchell (Wolverhampton) / Gabrielle Esperdy (NJIT) 11. Department stores - Sarah Elvins (Manitoba) / Erica Rappaport (UCSB) 12. Supermarkets - Gareth Shaw (Exeter) / Tracey Deutsch (Minnesota) 13. Village shops - Douglas McCalla (Guelph) 14. Arcades, Malls and Shopping Centres - M. Jeffrey Hardwick (George Mason) 15. Big boxes - Bethany Morton (Georgia) / Nelson Lichtenstein (UCSB) Part III People, processes and practices 16. Penny retailers and merchant princes - John Benson (Wolverhampton) / Neil Wrigley (Southampton) 17. Shop workers: unions, conditions and wages - Daniel Opler (College of Mount St Vincent) 18. Retail management, the corporate structure and trade associations - Peter Scott (Reading) 19. Credit and pricing - Louis Hyman (Cornell) 20. Multiple retailers - Andrew Alexander (Surrey) / David Delbert Kruger (Wyoming) 21. Co-operative retailing - Martin Purvis (Leeds) 22. Mail order - Andrew Case / Howard Stanger (Canisius College) / Richard Coopey (Worcester) 23. At the margins? Itinerants and peddlers - Laurence Fontaine (Paris) Part IV Geographical variations 24. Europe (including Scandinavia) - Ilja Van Damme (Antwerp) 25. Australia and New Zealand - Dale Miller (Griffith) 26. Latin America - Martin Monsalve (Pacific) 27. China- Anita Chan (University of Technology, Sydney) 28. Middle East - Liora Bigon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 29. Africa - Bianca Murillo(Williamette) / Luce Beeckmans (Ghent) 30. Japan - Masami Harada (Doshisha) / Miki Sugiora (Hosei) 31. India- (Jaya Halepete, Marymount)