مدرنیته و تجارت دست‌دوم: فرهنگ‌ها و شیوه‌های مصرف اروپایی، 1700-1900

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. A continuing desire for the new is often seen as a core cultural value of Western society, interwoven with the fabric of modernity itself. This has led to a conceptual and empirical neglect of 'alternative' consumer practices, including the consumption of second-hand goods. Rather than dismissing these as evidence of the inadequacies of pre-modern systems of production and exchange, this book seeks to redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade. It brings together the latest research on second-hand exchange and consumption in a range of western European countries during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a series of detailed studies, a different picture of the second-hand trade emerges: systems of exchange are seen to be resilient and innovative; used items are recognised as desirable consumer goods, and both buyers and sellers are revealed as being engaged in 'modern' practices. This innovative study is essential reading for all those interested in consumption studies Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 11 Introduction: Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: Themes, Topics and Debates......Page 14 Part I: The Nature of Second-Hand......Page 30 1 What’s New? Legal Discourse on Second-Hand Goods in Early Nineteenth-century Stockholm......Page 32 2 ‘All but the Kitchen Sink’: Household Sales and the Circulation of Second-Hand Goods in Early Modern England......Page 50 3 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......Page 70 4 Second-Hand Dealing in Bruges and the Rise of an ‘Antiquarian Culture’, c. 1750–1870......Page 86 5 The Polarization of the Second-Hand Market for Furniture in the Nineteenth Century......Page 106 6 ‘Souvenirs of People who have Come and Gone’: Second-Hand Furnishings and the Anglo-Indian Domestic Interior, 1840–1920......Page 124 Part II: Buying and Selling Second-Hand Goods......Page 150 7 ‘Old books – New Bound’? Selling Second-Hand Books in England, c. 1680–1850......Page 152 8 Power to the Broker: Shifting Authorities over Public Sales in Eighteenth-century Antwerp......Page 171 9 Going for a Song? Country House Sales in Georgian England......Page 188 10 Tables and Chairs Under the Hammer: Second-Hand Consumption of Furniture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in Sweden......Page 209 11 ‘Consuming Identities’: Patterns of Consumption at Three Eighteenth-century Cape Auctions......Page 233 12 The English Church Jumble Sale: Parochial Charity in the Modern Age......Page 255 Bibliography......Page 272 Index......Page 290 Edited By Jon Stobart, Ilja Van Damme. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.