Modernity and the second-hand trade : European consumption cultures and practices, 1700-1900
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Modernity and the second-hand trade : European consumption cultures and practices, 1700-1900
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index
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Description
Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: Themes,Topics and Debates
- J.Stobart & I.Van Damme PART I: THE NATURE OF SECOND-HAND What's New? Legal Discourse on Second-Hand Goods in Early Nineteenth Century Stockholm
- M.Wottle 'All but the kitchen sink': Household Sales and the Circulation of Second-Hand Goods in Early Modern England
- S.Pennell A Stolen Garment or a Reasonable Purchase? The Male Consumer and the Illicit Second-Hand Clothing Market in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
- A.Toplis Second-Hand Dealing in Bruges, c. 1750-1870: Continuity and Change in a Modernising Town
- I.Van Damme The Polarisation of the Second-Hand Market for Furniture in the Nineteenth Century
- C.Edwards & M.Ponsonby 'Souvenirs of people who have come and gone': Second-Hand Furnishings and the Anglo-Indian Domestic Interior, 1840-1920
- R.D.Jones PART II: BUYING AND SELLING SECOND-HAND GOODS 'Old books - new bound'? Selling Second-Hand Books in England, c.1680-1850
- I.Mitchell Power to the Broker: Shifting Authorities over Public Sales in Eighteenth-century Antwerp
- D.Lyna Going for a Song? Country House Sales in Georgian England
- R.MacArthur & J.Stobart Chairs and Tables under the Hammer: Second-Hand Consumption of Furniture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century in Sweden
- S.Murhem , G.Ulvang & K.Lilja 'Consuming Identities': Patterns of Consumption at Three Eighteenth-century Cape Auctions
- T.Randle The English Church Jumble Sale: Parochial Charity in the Modern Age
- V.Richmond Bibliography Index
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