Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood - Paperback

by Anne L. Schiller (Author)

This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.