Clare Haru Crowston

Credit, Fashion, Sex

Economies of Regard in Old Regime France

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Produktbeschreibung

Clare Haru Crowston is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355281
• ISBN-10: 0822355280
• Artikelnr.: 36840069

Autorenporträt

Clare Haru Crowston is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations and Tables ix
Money and Measurements xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Credit and Old Regime Economies of Regard 21
2. Critiques and Crises of the Credit System 56
3. Incredible Style: Intertwined Circuits of Credit, Fashion, and Sex 96
4. Credit in the Fashion Trades of Eighteenth-Century Paris 139
5. Fashion Merchants: Managing Credit, Narrating Collapse 195
6. Madame Déficit and Her Minister of Fashion: Self-Fashioning and the
Politics of Credit 246
7. Family Affairs: Consumption, Credit, and the Marriage Bond 283
Conclusion. Credit is Dead. Long Live Credit! 316
Notes 329
Bibliography 383
Index 407