Selling Silks: a Merchant's Sample Book 1764
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-01009
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- V & A Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781851777815
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Whilst intentionally written in an accessible style, this book investigates in considerable depth the socio-economic context for, and material analysis of, an extremely rare example of commercial culture. Its interpretation required long-term collection and analysis of a large body of diverse archival evidence in France. This included identification of those involved in its compilation through evaluation of post-mortem inventories, records of commercial partnerships and bankruptcies and debates in the silk-weaving guild and Chambre de Commerce. Further interpretative perspectives were obtained from images and designs. This shed light on the re-establishment of Anglo-French trade after the Seven Years War (1756-63).
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- Non-English
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