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

Book Overview

Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230229468
• ISBN13: 9780230229464
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"