Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World : Comparative Perspectives from across the Globe, 1700-1850 (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-century Cultures and Societies)

Blondé, Bruno (EDT)/ Overkamp, Anne (EDT)/ Stobart, Jon (EDT)

Routledge（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 284 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032736723

Full Description

The long eighteenth century is often seen as a time when consumption was driven by novelty, fashion and an expanding world of goods. This book takes an innovative approach to the supply of and demand for consumer goods in this period by exploring the nature, organisation and experience of household sales: events where used goods re-entered the market.

These sales took place in a wide variety of settings, from country houses to garrisons and from large cities to remote rural settlements. They were important economic and social events that offer new insights into the emergence of a modern consumer society and its relationship with material goods. In bringing together case studies from different settings across Europe, North America, the Caribbean and India, it offers a unique comparative perspective on an important and surprisingly neglected mechanism of economic exchange. Household sales played a vital role in the (re)circulation of household goods during this crucial period in the history of consumption. It reveals the common practices and shared desires that brought together auctions in diverse places, but also highlights how household sales were flexible events, shaped by local circumstances and priorities.

Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World is aimed at scholars and students of economic history, material culture, and consumption studies, as well as anyone interested in the social and cultural dynamics of the eighteenth century.

Contents

Introduction: Auctions and Households. Tradition and innovation in shopping for the home Part 1. Selling: strategies, auctioneers and advertising 1. A window of opportunity: the country house sale at Haus Hueth in 1792 2. His debts, her future: auctions and gendered power in Colonial North America 3. Negotiating the bid: the art and book auctioneer in eighteenth-century Germany 4. Buying Old? Selling New? Eighteenth-Century Auctioneers, Advertising and St James's Square, London 5. Empire of auctions: advertising household sales in the Caribbean, India and England, c.1790-1810 Part 2. Buying: goods, practices and people 6. A world without stuff? Public auctions in a colonial setting. Kingston (New York) in the seventeenth century 7. 'Therefore those who [...] would also desire to bid for his effects': Public auctions of household goods in the Geltstag bankruptcy regime in urban and rural Bern (1660-1790) 8. Hammocks and calabashes: auction sales of household goods at the Suriname Society Hospital (1760s-early 1770s) 9. 'Genteel and modern': auctioning the household belongings of the parish clergy in Georgian England