Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England - Hardcover
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Auctions and the Consumption of Second-Hand Goods in Georgian England
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of household auctions as the key mechanism for recirculating household goods through the 18th and early 19th century. Sara Pennell and Jon Stobart contextualise and historicise the importance of used goods to consumer choices, experiences and identities. They tell the stories of the people and things, as well as the broader processes,...
Sara Pennell is an independent scholar, having most recently been Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Michelle DiMeo, of Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550-1800 (2013) and author of The Birth of the English Kitchen (Bloomsbury, 2016).
Jon Stobart, FRHS, is Professor of Social History at Manchester Metropolitan...
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