Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution.
Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to consumption on credit. Drawing on data from the fashion trade, this fascinating edited volume shows how the concepts of credit, trust and bankruptcy changed towards the end of the early modern period (1500−1800) and in the beginning of the modern period. Focusing on Sweden, with comparative material from France and other European countries, this volume draws together emerging and established scholars from across the fields of economic history and fashion.
This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.
Edited by:
Klas Nyberg,
Håkan Jakobsson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9780367643874
ISBN 10: 0367643871
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 30 May 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii General introduction 1 KLAS NYBERG PART I Paris: the capital of luxury 17 1 Rational follies: fashion, luxury and credit in eighteenth-century Paris 19 PAULA VON WACHENFELDT 2 The French model and the rise of Swedish fashion, 1800−1840 34 KLAS NYBERG PART II The Swedish financial system and bankruptcy law 49 3 The Swedish bankruptcy system, 1734−1849 51 KARL GRATZER, MATS HAYEN AND KLAS NYBERG 4 Bankruptcies in Sweden, 1774−1849: causes and structural differences 62 MARCUS BOX, KARL GRATZER AND XIANG LIN Contents vi Contents PART III Credit and bankruptcies in the fashion and luxury trades in Sweden, 1730−1850 77 5 The institutional setting of the luxury trades in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Stockholm 79 KLAS NYBERG 6 Economic behaviour and social strategies in the Stockholm silk weaving industry, 1744–1831 97 HAKAN JAKOBSSON 7 Hair professionals in financial distress in Stockholm, 1750–1830 120 RIINA TURUNEN AND KUSTAA H. J. V ILKUNA 8 Book printing in Stockholm, from royal privilege to market economy, 1780–1850 136 MATS HAYEN 9 Cabinetmakers and chair makers in Stockholm, 1730–1850. Production, market and economy in a regulated economy 151 GORAN ULVANG 10 Credit relations among painting professionals in Stockholm, 1760–1849 170 AXEL HAGBERG AND KLAS NYBERG PART IV Conclusions 183 11 The Stockholm credit market in an international perspective 185 KLAS NYBERG Bibliography 199 Index 223
Klas Nyberg is Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. Håkan Jakobsson is a PhD student in the department of History at Stockholm University, Sweden.
