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Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
International Studies in Social History, Band 10 1. Aufl.

von: Laurence Fontaine
37,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.04.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450081
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	280

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Autorenportrait

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.