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Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade

European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900

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Editors:
  1. Jon Stobart

    1. University of Northampton, UK

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  2. Ilja Damme

    1. University of Antwerp, Belgium

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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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jon Stobart, Ilja Van Damme
      Pages 1-15

  3. The Nature of Second-Hand

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. What’s New? Legal Discourse on Second-Hand Goods in Early Nineteenth-century Stockholm

      • Martin Wottle
      Pages 19-36

    3. ‘All but the Kitchen Sink’: Household Sales and the Circulation of Second-Hand Goods in Early Modern England

      • Sara Pennell
      Pages 37-56

    4. 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

      • Alison Toplis
      Pages 57-72

    5. Second-Hand Dealing in Bruges and the Rise of an ‘Antiquarian Culture’, c. 1750–1870

      • Ilja Van Damme
      Pages 73-92

    6. The Polarization of the Second-Hand Market for Furniture in the Nineteenth Century

      • Clive Edwards, Margaret Ponsonby
      Pages 93-110

    7. ‘Souvenirs of People who have Come and Gone’: Second-Hand Furnishings and the Anglo-Indian Domestic Interior, 1840–1920

      • Robin D. Jones
      Pages 111-135

  4. Buying and Selling Second-Hand Goods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. ‘Old books — New Bound’? Selling Second-Hand Books in England, c. 1680–1850

      • Ian Mitchell
      Pages 139-157

    3. Power to the Broker: Shifting Authorities over Public Sales in Eighteenth-century Antwerp

      • Dries Lyna
      Pages 158-174

    4. Going for a Song? Country House Sales in Georgian England

      • Rosie MacArthur, Jon Stobart
      Pages 175-195

    5. Tables and Chairs Under the Hammer: Second-Hand Consumption of Furniture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Sweden

      • Sofia Murhem, Göran Ulväng, Kristina Lilja
      Pages 196-219

    6. ‘Consuming Identities’: Patterns of Consumption at Three Eighteenth-century Cape Auctions

      • Tracey Randle
      Pages 220-241

    7. The English Church Jumble Sale: Parochial Charity in the Modern Age

      • Vivienne Richmond
      Pages 242-258

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 259-281
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Northampton, UK

    Jon Stobart

  • University of Antwerp, Belgium

    Ilja Damme

About the editors

CLIVE EDWARDS Reader in Design History, Loughborough University, UK ROBIN JONES Principal Lecturer and Programme Group Leader, School of Visual Arts, Southampton Solent University, UK KRISTINA LILJA Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden DRIES LYNA Research Assistant, Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp, Belgium ROSE MACARTHUR Research Student, University of Northampton, UK IAN MITCHELL Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton, UK SOFIA MURHEM Assistant Professor, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden SARA PENNELL Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History, Roehampton University, UK MARGARET PONSONBY Senior Lecturer in History, University of Wolverhampton, UK TRACEY RANDLE Principal Researcher, Museum van de Caab, Solms-Delta estate, Franschhoek, South Africa VIVIENNE RICHMOND Lecturer in Modern British History, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK ALISON TOPLIS Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton, UK GÖRAN ULVÄNG Research Fellow, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden MARTIN WOTTLE Lecturer in History, Södertörn University, Sweden

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade

  • Book Subtitle: European Consumption Cultures and Practices, 1700-1900

  • Editors: Jon Stobart, Ilja Damme

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230290549

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22946-4Published: 30 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31086-9Published: 01 January 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29054-9Published: 30 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 281

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, Social History, Cultural History, Economic History

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