Krämer und ihre Waren im ländlichen Württemberg zwischen 1600 und 1740.

The article focuses on several aspects of the commerce in the rural parts of Württemberg, Germany during the early modern period from 1600 to 1740. Several topics are discussed, including how trade was heavily regulated through the government in most German regions, how the people that produced agricultural and commercial goods were prohibited from selling their wares themselves and had to employ middlemen or shopkeepers to sell their wares, and how the shopkeepers often lacked expertise in what they were selling, only sold a small amount of goods, and were often wealthier and better educated than their customers. Also mentioned is that shopkeepers in parts of Germany banded together to block other people, such as women, Jews, or working class people, from selling their wares.