Alternative Exchanges : : Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present /

Alternative Exchanges : : Second-Hand Circulations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present / / ed. by Laurence Fontaine.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ago, Renata,
Charpy, Manuel,
Deceulaer, Harald,
Fontaine, Laurence,
Goode, Jackie,
Jullien, Bernard,
Pearson, Ruth,
Pietri, Valérie,
Porter Benson, Susan,
Sandberg, Brian,
Storey, Tessa,
Tranberg Hansen, Karen,
HerausgeberIn:
Fontaine, Laurence,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:International Studies in Social History ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 SECOND-HAND DEALERS IN THE EARLY MODERN LOW COUNTRIES. INSTITUTIONS, MARKETS AND PRACTICES
  • 2 USING THINGS AS MONEY. AN EXAMPLE FROM LATE RENAISSANCE ROME
  • 3 PROSTITUTION AND THE CIRCULATION OF SECOND-HAND GOODS IN EARLY MODERN ROME
  • 4 “THE MAGAZINE OF ALL THEIR PILLAGING” ARMIES AS SITES OF SECOND-HAND EXCHANGES DURING THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
  • 5 THE EXCHANGE OF SECOND-HAND GOODS BETWEEN SURVIVAL STRATEGIES AND “BUSINESS” IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS
  • 6 USES OF THE USED. THE CONVENTIONS OF RENEWING AND EXCHANGING GOODS IN FRENCH PROVINCIAL ARISTOCRACY
  • 7 THE SCOPE AND STRUCTURE OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY SECOND-HAND TRADE IN THE PARISIAN CLOTHES MARKET
  • 8 “WHAT GOES ’ROUND COMES ’ROUND”. SECOND-HAND CLOTHING, FURNITURE AND TOOLS IN WORKING-CLASS LIVES IN THE INTERWAR USA
  • 9 MOVING ON. OVERLOOKED ASPECTS OF MODERN COLLECTING
  • 10 THE SECOND-HAND CAR MARKET AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE
  • 11 UTOPIA POSTPONED? THE RISE AND FALL OF BARTER MARKETS IN ARGENTINA, 1995–2004
  • 12 CHARITY, COMMERCE, CONSUMPTION. THE INTERNATIONAL SECOND-HAND CLOTHING TRADE AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM – FOCUS ON ZAMBIA
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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