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In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how the selling of secondhand goods came to be both profitable and culturally influential. Considering buyers and sellers from across the political and economic spectrum, Le Zotte shows how conservative and progressive social activists shrewdly used the exchange of secondhand goods for economic and political ends.

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Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, gifts, and charity. It describes the actors of the market - official entities such as corporations, recognized professions, and established markets but also the subterranean circulation that develops around the need for money. The complex layers that not only provide for numerous intermediaries but also i

History of Europe --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 331.100 --- 331.13 --- 331.20 --- 339.320 --- 380.4 --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de handel. --- Sociale geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie. --- Theorie van het ruilverkeer. --- Secondhand trade --- History. --- Second hand trade --- History --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de handel --- Sociale geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Consumptie: algemeenheden. Wet van de vraag in verband met de consumptie. Consumptiebehoefte. Behoeftetheorie --- Theorie van het ruilverkeer --- Junk trade