Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade

Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade
Author: J. Stobart
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 023029054X

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.