Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century. Shopping functioned as an act of social distinction, where retail practices not only reflected and reinforced social aspirations and identities, but were a means of creating relationships through shared information and exchanges.

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This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century. Shopping functioned as an act of social distinction, where retail practices not only reflected and reinforced social aspirations and identities, but were a means of creating relationships through shared information and exchanges.
Autorenporträt
My Hellsing is researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden, focusing on the history of European courts, gender and material culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. In 2015, her doctoral thesis was published as a monograph as Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, hertiginna vid det gustavianska hovet. Since then, she has continued publishing on the political sociability of the elites in the Age of Revolution. She is currently working on the archival practice of the royal court from the nineteenth century to the present. Johanna Ilmakunnas is a Professor of Nordic History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research interests span from cultural history of work, lifestyle, consumption and material culture to microhistory, family and gender in eighteenth-century Europe, especially in Sweden. Her recent publications include Flitiga och sysslolösa: Essäer om 1700-talets Europa (2024). Other topics of recent publications include commercial credit and elites, comfort in Swedish country houses, diary-writing practices of eighteenth-century nobility, and material and emotional cultures of death in eighteenth-century Sweden and Finland.