The afterlife of used things : recycling in the long eighteenth century / edited by Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua, and Sophie Vasset.

"Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. 'The environment' may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also mark...

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