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Alternative exchanges : second-hand circulations from the sixteenth century to the present /

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fontaine, Laurence (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Second-hand dealers in the early modern low countries: institutions, markets and practices / Harald Deceulaer
  • Using things as money: an example from late renaissance Rome / Renata Ago
  • Prostitution and the circulation of second-hand goods in early modern Rome / Tessa Storey
  • "The magazine of all their pillaging": armies as sites of second-hand exchanges during the French wars of religion / Brian Sandberg
  • The exchange of second-hand goods between survival strategies and "business" in eighteenth-century Paris / Laurence Fontaine
  • Uses of the used: the conventions of renewing and exchanging goods in French provincial aristocracy / Valérie Pietri
  • The scope and structure of the nineteenth-century second-hand trade in the Parisian clothes market / Manuel Charpy
  • "What goes 'round comes 'round": second-hand clothing, furniture and tools in working-class lives in the interwar USA / Susan Porter Benson
  • Moving on: overlooked aspects of modern collecting / Jackie Goode
  • The second-hand car market as a form of resistance / Bernard Jullien
  • Utopia postponed? The rise and fall of barter markets in Argentina, 1995-2004 / Ruth Pearson
  • Charity, commerce, consumption: the international second-hand clothing trade at the turn of the millennium
  • focus on Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen.