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Laurence Fontaine studied History and Sociology at Paris-Sorbonne University and was appointed by the C.N.R.S. in 1989. She was Professor in the History Department of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy from 1995 until 2003 and is currently Directrice de Recherche in the C.N.R.S., attached to the EHESS in Paris.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction

Laurence Fontaine



Chapter 1. Second-hand Dealers in the Early Modern Low Countries: Institutions, Markets and Practices

Harald Deceulaer



Chapter 2. Using Things as Money: An Example from Late Renaissance Rome

Renata Ago



Chapter 3. Prostitution and the Circulation of Second-hand Goods in Early Modern Rome

Tessa Storey



Chapter 4. “The Magazine of All Their Pillaging”: Armies as Sites of Second-hand Exchanges during the French Wars of Religion

Brian Sandberg



Chapter 5. The Exchange of Second-hand Goods between Survival Strategies and “Business” in Eighteenth-century Paris

Laurence Fontaine



Chapter 6. Uses of the Used: The Conventions of Renewing and Exchanging Goods in French Provincial Aristocracy

Valérie Pietri



Chapter 7. The Scope and Structure of the Nineteenth-century Second-hand Trade in the Parisian Clothes Market

Manuel Charpy



Chapter 8. “What Goes ’Round Comes ’Round”: Second-hand Clothing, Furniture and Tools in Working-class Lives in the Interwar USA Susan

Porter Benson



Chapter 9. Moving On: Overlooked Aspects of Modern Collecting

Jackie Goode



Chapter 10. The Second-hand Car Market as a Form of Resistance

Bernard Jullien



Chapter 11. Utopia Postponed? The Rise and Fall of Barter Markets in Argentina, 1995–2004

Ruth Pearson



Chapter 12. Charity, Commerce, Consumption: The International Second-hand Clothing Trade at the Turn of the Millennium – Focus on Zambia

Karen Tranberg Hansen



Conclusion

Laurence Fontaine



Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index