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.
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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. Ulväng & 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
