From the Bottom to the Top: The Rungis Marketplace and the Establishment of the European Common Market

Research seminar with Myriam Piguet

The research project proposes to merge three analytical levels – European, national, and local – to tell the story of the European market through the removal of the Halles marketplace in the center of Paris and the establishment of Rungis wholesale marketplace (1950-1980). The project adopts a sociohistorical methodology to study the effects of the creation of the European Economic Community. By considering the markets of the Halles and Rungis as sites of internationalism and studying the experience of their actors this project will extend the frontiers of international organizations’ history.

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