Title Credit, fashion, sex : economies of regard in Old Regime France / Clare Haru Crowston

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 424 pages) : illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Credit -- France -- History -- 17th century Credit -- France -- History -- 18th century Fashion -- France -- History -- 17th century Fashion -- France -- History -- 18th century Sex -- Economic aspects -- France -- History -- 17th century Sex -- Economic aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. HISTORY / Europe / France Credit Fashion Sex -- Economic aspects Kredit Mode Sexualität Wirtschaft Kredit -- historia. Mode -- historia. Sexualitet -- ekonomiska aspekter -- historia. France Frankreich Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822377443 0822377446

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