Credit, Fashion, Sex is a historical account of how, in Old Regime France, credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life.
Credit, Fashion, Sex is a historical account of how, in Old Regime France, credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life.
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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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
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
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