Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “[This volume] gathers a rich collection of rigorous essays based on case studies. The topics selected exemplify the recent trends in social history, which reveal new areas for research.” · Sixteenth Century Journal
“…this volume offers an array of insights into the multifaceted means employed to construct material advantage…and into a creative management that took many forms and varied across time.” · Journal of Social History
Table of Contents 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
