Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900

Book Overview

List of Tables and Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: Themes, Topics and Debates; J.Stobart & I.Van Damme PART I: THE NATURE OF SECOND-HAND What's New? Legal Discourse on Second-Hand Goods in Early Nineteenth Century Stockholm; M.Wottle 'All but the kitchen sink': Household Sales and the Circulation of Second-Hand Goods in Early Modern England; S.Pennell A Stolen Garment or a Reasonable Purchase? The Male Consumer and the Illicit Second-Hand Clothing Market in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; A.Toplis Second-Hand Dealing in Bruges, c. 1750-1870: Continuity and Change in a Modernising Town; I.Van Damme The Polarisation of the Second-Hand Market for Furniture in the Nineteenth Century; C.Edwards & M.Ponsonby 'Souvenirs of people who have come and gone': Second-Hand Furnishings and the Anglo-Indian Domestic Interior, 1840-1920; R.D.Jones PART II: BUYING AND SELLING SECOND-HAND GOODS 'Old books - new bound'? Selling Second-Hand Books in England, c.1680-1850; I.Mitchell Power to the Broker: Shifting Authorities over Public Sales in Eighteenth-century Antwerp; D.Lyna Going for a Song? Country House Sales in Georgian England; R.MacArthur & J.Stobart Chairs and Tables under the Hammer: Second-Hand Consumption of Furniture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century in Sweden; S.Murhem, G.Ulv?ng & K.Lilja 'Consuming Identities': Patterns of Consumption at Three Eighteenth-century Cape Auctions; T.Randle The English Church Jumble Sale: Parochial Charity in the Modern Age; V.Richmond Bibliography Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349310867
• ISBN13: 9781349310869
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"