Crowston Credit, Fashion, Sex

Economies of Regard in Old Regime France
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7744-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Credit, Fashion, Sex is a historical account of how, in Old Regime France, credit was both a central part of economic exchange and a crucial concept for explaining dynamics of influence and power in all spheres of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crowston, Clare Haru

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations and Tables ix

Money and Measurements xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. Credit and Old Regime Economies of Regard 21

2. Critiques and Crises of the Credit System 56

3. Incredible Style: Intertwined Circuits of Credit, Fashion, and Sex 96

4. Credit in the Fashion Trades of Eighteenth-Century Paris 139

5. Fashion Merchants: Managing Credit, Narrating Collapse 195

6. Madame Déficit and Her Minister of Fashion: Self-Fashioning and the Politics of Credit 246

7. Family Affairs: Consumption, Credit, and the Marriage Bond 283

Conclusion. Credit is Dead. Long Live Credit! 316

Notes 329

Bibliography 383

Index 407

Über Autor(innen)

Clare Haru Crowston is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, also published by Duke University Press.