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.

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionLaurence FontaineChapter 1. Second-hand Dealers in the Early Modern Low Countries: Institutions, Markets and PracticesHarald DeceulaerChapter 2. Using Things as Money: An Example from Late Renaissance RomeRenata AgoChapter 3. Prostitution and the Circulation of Second-hand Goods in Early Modern RomeTessa StoreyChapter 4. “The Magazine of All Their Pillaging”: Armies as Sites of Second-hand Exchanges during the French Wars of ReligionBrian SandbergChapter 5. The Exchange of Second-hand Goods between Survival Strategies and “Business” in Eighteenth-century ParisLaurence FontaineChapter 6. Uses of the Used: The Conventions of Renewing and Exchanging Goods in French Provincial AristocracyValérie PietriChapter 7. The Scope and Structure of the Nineteenth-century Second-hand Trade in the Parisian Clothes MarketManuel CharpyChapter 8. “What Goes ’Round Comes ’Round”: Second-hand Clothing, Furniture and Tools in Working-class Lives in the Interwar USA SusanPorter BensonChapter 9. Moving On: Overlooked Aspects of Modern CollectingJackie GoodeChapter 10. The Second-hand Car Market as a Form of ResistanceBernard JullienChapter 11. Utopia Postponed? The Rise and Fall of Barter Markets in Argentina, 1995–2004Ruth PearsonChapter 12. Charity, Commerce, Consumption: The International Second-hand Clothing Trade at the Turn of the Millennium – Focus on ZambiaKaren Tranberg HansenConclusionLaurence FontaineBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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