Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade

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 GA-RAN ULVA NG Research Fellow, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden MARTIN WOTTLE Lecturer in History, Sodertorn University, Sweden

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.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.