The Afterlife of Used Things

The Afterlife of Used Things
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9781317744979
ISBN-13 : 1317744977
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Book Synopsis The Afterlife of Used Things by : Ariane Fennetaux

Download or read book The Afterlife of Used Things written by Ariane Fennetaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.


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