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UNINA9910493179803321 |
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Titolo |
Alternative exchanges [[electronic resource] ] : second-hand circulations from the sixteenth century to the present / / edited by Laurence Fontaine |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-62660-4 |
9786612626609 |
0-85745-008-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Collana |
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International studies in social history ; ; v. 10 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Secondhand trade - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-261) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title page-Alternative Exchanges; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1-Second-hand dealers in the early modern low countries; Chapter 2-Using things as money; Chapter 3-Prostitution and the circulation of second-hand goods in early modern Rome; Chapter 4-'The Magazine of all their pillaging'; Chapter 5-The exchange of second-hand goods between survival strategies and 'business' in eighteenth-century Paris; Chapter 6-Uses of the used; Chapter 7-The scope and structure of the nineteenth-century second-hand trade in the Parisian clothes market |
Chapter 8-'What goes 'Round comes' Round""Chapter 9-Moving on; Chapter 10-The second-hand car market as a form of resistance; Chapter 11-Utopia postponed?; Chapter 12-Charity, commerce, consumption; Conclusion; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, and charity. It describes the actors of the market - official entities such as corporations, |
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