Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Europe

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List of Contributors

1. Shopping in European Towns: A Prism of Everyday Life

- My Hellsing & Johanna Ilmakunnas

2. Visiting a Backwater? Consumer Attractions, Shopping Experiences and the Enlightened 'Tourist Gaze' in the Low Countries (c.1715-c.1840)

- Ilja Van Damme & Gerrit Verhoeven

3. Courtly Needs and Commercial Instincts: Shopping in Provincial Germany in the Eighteenth Century

- Anne Sophie Overkamp

4. Expense, Obligation, Extravagance: Aristocrats and Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Paris

- Natacha Coquery

5. Shopping and Widowhood at Court: The Case of three French Ladies-in-Waiting at the End of the Eighteenth Century

- Aurelie Chatenet-Calyste

6. Shopping, Life-Stage and Hierarchy: Practices and Experiences of a Household in mid-Eighteenth-Century Stockholm

- Johanna Ilmakunnas

7. Interior Decor and Neutrality Politics in a Time of War: Charlotte Schimmelmann's Redecorations of Schimmelmann House in Copenhagen, 1789 and 1806

- Kristine Dyrmann

8. Make, Mend, Alter, Share: Shopping Practices of a Swedish Royal Household from the 1780s to the 1800s

- My Hellsing

9. A Performative Act of Shopping: Identity and Self-Image amongst Actors and Actresses in Stockholm, c.1760-1840

- Marie Steinrud

10. Hidden Shopping in the Public Space: Deciphering a Theft and a Shopping Episode in Eighteenth-Century Finland

- Panu Savolainen

11. The Haircare Market in Stockholm, 1770-1850: Hair Fashion and Opportunities for Choice

- Leif Runefelt

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