Itinerant traders: elusive subjects moving at the intersection of historical fields

This special issue on itinerant trade includes new research a range of non-fixed traders who engaged in both transnational and smaller-scale moves when trading. Itinerant trading stands at the crossroads different historiographical fields: it can be studied through lens commercial consumption history, but also as history migration labour, or underbelly economy deviance. More recently, this topic has interested historians material culture, emotions folklore. The contributions to highlight these directions important trends into trade. five explore moving early modern periods Britain, Nordics across wider European continent. articles investigate: space, temporality culture saloop stall early-modern London; female rural petty twentieth-century Finland; British Liberal authorities' approach regulating late-modern Britain; geographic, ethnic cultural backgrounds networks late-nineteenth century Nordics; peddling Europe.