Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Nyberg, Klas; Jakobsson, Håkan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000282023
• Artikelnr.: 60473083

Autorenporträt

Klas Nyberg is Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Håkan Jakobsson is a PhD student in the department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii General introduction 1 KLAS NYBERG PART I Paris: the capital of luxury 17 1 Rational follies: fashion, luxury and credit in eighteenth-century Paris 19 PAULA VON WACHENFELDT 2 The French model and the rise of Swedish fashion, 1800
1840 34 KLAS NYBERG PART II The Swedish financial system and bankruptcy law 49 3 The Swedish bankruptcy system, 1734
1849 51 KARL GRATZER, MATS HAYEN AND KLAS NYBERG 4 Bankruptcies in Sweden, 1774
1849: causes and structural differences 62 MARCUS BOX, KARL GRATZER AND XIANG LIN Contents vi Contents PART III Credit and bankruptcies in the fashion and luxury trades in Sweden, 1730
1850 77 5 The institutional setting of the luxury trades in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Stockholm 79 KLAS NYBERG 6 Economic behaviour and social strategies in the Stockholm silk weaving industry, 1744-1831 97 HAKAN JAKOBSSON 7 Hair professionals in financial distress in Stockholm, 1750-1830 120 RIINA TURUNEN AND KUSTAA H. J. V ILKUNA 8 Book printing in Stockholm, from royal privilege to market economy, 1780-1850 136 MATS HAYEN 9 Cabinetmakers and chair makers in Stockholm, 1730-1850. Production, market and economy in a regulated economy 151 GORAN ULVANG 10 Credit relations among painting professionals in Stockholm, 1760-1849 170 AXEL HAGBERG AND KLAS NYBERG PART IV Conclusions 183 11 The Stockholm credit market in an international perspective 185 KLAS NYBERG Bibliography 199 Index 223