Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World

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Auctions and Households in the Eighteenth-Century World

Comparative Perspectives from across the Globe, 1700-1850

Blonde, Bruno; Overkamp, Anne; Stobart, Jon

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2026

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9781032736723

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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
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Economic History;Eighteenth Century;Material Cultures