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9781457641695 | 10 pap/psc edition (Bedford/st Martins, May 17, 2012), cover price $149.10
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9781457641404 | 10 pap/psc edition (Bedford/st Martins, May 15, 2012), cover price $170.40
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. Contemporaries used the term credit to describe reputation and the currency it provided in court politics, literary production, religion, and commerce. Moving beyond Pierre Bourdieu's theorization of capital, this book establishes credit as a key matrix through which French men and women perceived their world. As Clare Haru Crowston demonstrates, credit unveils the personal character of market transactions, the unequal yet reciprocal ties binding society, and the hidden mechanisms of political power.Credit economies constituted "economies of regard" in which reputation depended on embodied performances of credibility. Crowston explores the role of fashionable appearances and sexual desire in leveraging credit and reconstructs women's vigorous participation in its gray markets. The scandalous relationship between Queen Marie Antoinette and fashion merchant Rose Bertin epitomizes the vertical loyalties and deep social divides of the credit regime and its increasingly urgent political stakes.
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9780822355137 | Duke Univ Pr, October 23, 2013, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780822355281 | Duke Univ Pr, October 23, 2013, cover price $27.95
Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansFabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstressesâ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on women and gender in the early modern period, Clare Haru Crowston asserts that the rise of the absolute state, with its centralizing and unifying tendencies, could actually increase womenâs economic, social, and legal opportunities and allow them to thrive in corporate organizations such as the guild. Yet Crowston also reveals paradoxical consequences of the guildâs success, such as how its growing membership and visibility ultimately fostered an essentialized femininity that was tied to fashion and appearances. Situating the seamstressesâ guild as both an economic and political institution, Crowston explores in particular its relationship with the all-male tailorsâ guild, which had dominated the clothing fabrication trade in France until women challenged this monopoly during the seventeenth century. Combining archival evidence with visual images, technical literature, philosophical treatises, and fashion journals, she also investigates the techniques the seamstresses used to make and sell clothing, how the garments reflected and shaped modern conceptions of femininity, and guild officialsâ interactions with royal and municipal authorities. Finally, by offering a revealing portrait of these womenâs private livesâexplaining, for instance, how many seamstresses went beyond traditional female boundaries by choosing to remain single and establish their own householdsâCrowston challenges existing ideas about womenâs work and family in early modern Europe. Although clothing lay at the heart of French economic production, social distinction, and cultural identity, Fabricating Women is the first book to investigate this immense and archetypal female guild in depth. It will be welcomed by students and scholars of French and European history, womenâs and labor history, fashion and technology, and early modern political economy. (view table of contents)
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9780822326625 | Duke Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansFabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstressesâ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution.
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9780822326663 | Duke Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $29.95
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9781457607363 | Ppk lslf edition (Bedford/st Martins, March 24, 2011), cover price $87.70
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9781457602955 | 10 pap/dgd edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 1, 2011), cover price $181.85
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9781457602986 | 10 har/dgd edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 1, 2011), cover price $182.20
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9781457602962 | 10 har/dol edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 1, 2011), cover price $149.10
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9781457601828 | 10 pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, December 14, 2010), cover price $145.45
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9781457603013 | 10 har/dgd edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 1, 2011), cover price $239.65
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9781457602924 | 10 har/dol edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 1, 2011), cover price $191.70
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9780312687618 | 9 pck har/ edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 2, 2008), cover price $152.40
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9780312686246 | Bedford/st Martins, March 5, 2008, cover price $147.70
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9780312687625 | Pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 2, 2008), cover price $115.95
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9780312689209 | 9 pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 19, 2009), cover price $129.75
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9780312689094 | 9 pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, June 10, 2009), cover price $122.05
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9780312687649 | Pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 2, 2008), cover price $141.65
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9780312687663 | Pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 2, 2008), cover price $141.65
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9780312687632 | Pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 2, 2008), cover price $115.95
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9780312689223 | 9 pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, August 19, 2009), cover price $129.75
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9780312684747 | Pck har/pa edition (Bedford/st Martins, November 5, 2008), cover price $116.45
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9780312686062 | Pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, November 5, 2008), cover price $116.45
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9780312684709 | Pck har/pa edition (Bedford/st Martins, January 2, 2007), cover price $107.60
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9780312689100 | 9 pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, June 10, 2009), cover price $122.05
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9780312687656 | Pck edition (Bedford/st Martins, October 2, 2008), cover price $141.65
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