Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit

Klas Nyberg is Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Håkan Jakobsson is a PhD student in the department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden.

List of figures vii

List of tables ix

List of contributors xi

Acknowledgements xiii

General introduction 1

KLAS NYBERG

PART I

Paris: the capital of luxury 17

1 Rational follies: fashion, luxury and credit in eighteenth-century Paris 19

PAULA VON WACHENFELDT

2 The French model and the rise of Swedish fashion, 1800−1840 34

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PART II

The Swedish financial system and bankruptcy law 49

3 The Swedish bankruptcy system, 1734−1849 51

KARL GRATZER, MATS HAYEN AND KLAS NYBERG

4 Bankruptcies in Sweden, 1774−1849: causes and structural differences 62

MARCUS BOX, KARL GRATZER AND XIANG LIN

Contents

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PART III

Credit and bankruptcies in the fashion and luxury trades in Sweden, 1730−1850 77

5 The institutional setting of the luxury trades in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Stockholm 79

KLAS NYBERG

6 Economic behaviour and social strategies in the Stockholm silk weaving industry, 1744–1831 97

HAKAN JAKOBSSON

7 Hair professionals in financial distress in Stockholm, 1750–1830 120

RIINA TURUNEN AND KUSTAA H. J. V ILKUNA

8 Book printing in Stockholm, from royal privilege to market economy, 1780–1850 136

MATS HAYEN

9 Cabinetmakers and chair makers in Stockholm, 1730–1850. Production, market and economy in a regulated economy 151

GORAN ULVANG

10 Credit relations among painting professionals in Stockholm, 1760–1849 170

AXEL HAGBERG AND KLAS NYBERG

PART IV

Conclusions 183

11 The Stockholm credit market in an international perspective 185

KLAS NYBERG

Bibliography 199

Index 223