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Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Redaktion: Fontaine, Laurence

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Produktbeschreibung

Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, gifts, and charity. It describes the actors of the market - official entities such as corporations, recognized professions, and established markets but also the subterranean circulation that develops around the need for money. The complex layers that not only provide for numerous intermediaries but also include the many men and women who, as sellers or buyers, use these circulations on countless occasions are also examined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857450081
• Artikelnr.: 39598079

Autorenporträt

Laurence Fontaine studied History and Sociology at Paris-Sorbonne University and was appointed by the C.N.R.S. in 1989. She was Professor in the History Department of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy from 1995 until 2003 and is currently Directrice de Recherche in the C.N.R.S., attached to the EHESS in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Laurence Fontaine
Chapter 1. Second-hand Dealers in the Early Modern Low Countries:
Institutions, Markets and Practices
Harald Deceulaer
Chapter 2. Using Things as Money: An Example from Late Renaissance Rome
Renata Ago
Chapter 3. Prostitution and the Circulation of Second-hand Goods in Early
Modern Rome
Tessa Storey
Chapter 4. "The Magazine of All Their Pillaging": Armies as Sites of
Second-hand Exchanges during the French Wars of Religion
Brian Sandberg
Chapter 5. The Exchange of Second-hand Goods between Survival Strategies
and "Business" in Eighteenth-century Paris
Laurence Fontaine
Chapter 6. Uses of the Used: The Conventions of Renewing and Exchanging
Goods in French Provincial Aristocracy
Valérie Pietri
Chapter 7. The Scope and Structure of the Nineteenth-century Second-hand
Trade in the Parisian Clothes Market
Manuel Charpy
Chapter 8. "What Goes 'Round Comes 'Round": Second-hand Clothing, Furniture
and Tools in Working-class Lives in the Interwar USA Susan
Porter Benson
Chapter 9. Moving On: Overlooked Aspects of Modern Collecting
Jackie Goode
Chapter 10. The Second-hand Car Market as a Form of Resistance
Bernard Jullien
Chapter 11. Utopia Postponed? The Rise and Fall of Barter Markets in
Argentina, 1995-2004
Ruth Pearson
Chapter 12. Charity, Commerce, Consumption: The International Second-hand
Clothing Trade at the Turn of the Millennium - Focus on Zambia
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Conclusion
Laurence Fontaine
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index