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Credit, fashion, sex : economies of regard in Old Regime France / Clare Haru Crowston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowston, Clare Haru, 1968-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Credit--France--History--17th century.
- Credit.
- Credit--France--History--18th century.
- Fashion--France--History--17th century.
- Fashion.
- Fashion--France--History--18th century.
- Sex--Economic aspects--France--History--17th century.
- Sex.
- Sex--Economic aspects--France--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (445 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Critiques and crises of the credit system
- Incredible style : intertwined circuits of credit, fashion, and sex
- Credit in the female fashion trades of eighteenth-century Paris
- Fashion merchants: managing credit, narrating collapse
- Madame Déficit and her minister of fashion : self-fashioning and the politics of credit
- Family affairs : consumption, credit and the marriage bond.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355281
- 0822355280
- 9780822377443
- 0822377446
- OCLC:
- 1140000550
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