John Benson and Laura Ugolini, ed A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries of British Retailing. London: I. B Tauris; dist. by dint of Palgrave, New York. 2003 Pp x 269 $2450 paper. ISBN 1-86064-708-1
A Nation of tradesmans is the product of the innovative activities of CHORD--the Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution--set up by dint of John Benson and run according to Laura Ugolini at the University of Wolverhampton. from one side of to the other the past few years, there have been a series of highly stimulating conversations and seminars that have done abundant to bring together historians of retailing as