pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The market and the state -- pt. 3. Markets, merchants and middlemen -- pt. 4. Markets and urban manufacture -- pt. 5. Market production and women's work -- pt. 6. Market structures and social institutions : commerce and customary context.

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