Alternative exchanges : second-hand circulations from the sixteenth century to the present /: second-hand circulations from the sixteenth century to the present. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Laurence Fontaine.
• Editors: Fontaine, Laurence
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 381; Secondhand trade -- History; Business -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General; HISTORY -- General; Secondhand trade; Gebrauchtwarenhandel; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857450081; 0857450085
• Related ISBNs: 9781845452452; 1845452453
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-261) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.