Concepts of value in European material culture, 1500 - 1900

"The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the histor...

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Main Author: Munck, Bert de (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England [u.a.] : Ashgate Publishing Company , [2015]
Series:The history of retailing and consumption
Subjects:
1500-1900
Geschichte 1500-1900
Europa
Sachkultur
Verbrauch
Wert
Wirtschaft
Kunst
Werttheorie
Rezensiertes Werk
Europe > Economic conditions
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Related Items:Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Bert De Munck, Dries Lyna (Hrsg.), Concepts of value in European material culture, 1500-1900]
Author Notes:ed. by Bert De Munck ...
Table of Contents:
  • Locating and dislocating value : a pragmatic approach to early modern and nineteenth-century economic practices : expanding markets and market devices
  • Bert De Munck & Dries LynaLabelling with numbers? : weavers, merchants and the valuation of linen in seventeenth-century Münster / Christof Jeggle
  • Words of value? : art auctions and semiotic socialisation in the Austrian Netherlands (1750-1794)
  • Dries Lyna
  • From a "knowledgeable" salesman towards a "recognizable" product? : questioning branding strategies before industrialization (Antwerp, 17th-19th centuries)
  • Ilja Van Damme
  • Golden touchstones? : the culture of art auctions in Brussels, 1830-1900 : conventions, material culture, and institutions
  • Anneleen Arnout
  • The justness of aestimatio and the justice of transactions : defining real estate values in early modern Milan
  • Michela Barbot
  • Vehicles of disinterested pleasure : French painting and non-remunerative value in the eighteenth century
  • Tomas Macsotay
  • Usefulness, ornamental function and novelty : debates on quality in button and buckle manufacturing in northern Italy (18th-19th centuries) : the old and the new
  • Barbara Bettoni
  • "Façon de venise" : determining the value of glass in early modern Europe
  • Corine Maitte
  • The veneer of age : valuing the patina of silver in eighteenth-century Britain
  • Helen Clifford
  • The value of a collection : collecting practices in early modern Europe
  • Adriana Turpin.

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