Alternative Exchanges

List of Figures and Tables

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

Valerie 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