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Movable Markets : Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City /

"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 a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Tangires, Helen, 1956- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I. Open Entry
  • Shelter for the Middleman
  • The Produce District: Design by Improvisation
  • Part II. Consolidation
  • Planning the Wholesale Terminal Market
  • The Nation's Capital: Testing Ground for the Wholesale Trade
  • Part III. New Frontiers
  • The New Deal: Birth of the State-Sponsored Regional Market
  • Industrial Parks and the USDA Paradigm.