The Purchase of the Past
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Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890
Tom Stammers
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Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
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The Purchase of the Pastpp i-ii
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Select The Purchase of the Past - Title page
The Purchase of the Past - Title pagepp iii-iii
Collecting Culture In Post Revolutionary Paris C 1790 1890
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Copyright pagepp iv-iv
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Epigraphpp v-vi
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Contentspp vii-vii
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Select Illustrations
Illustrationspp viii-ix
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Select Acknowledgements
Acknowledgementspp x-xii
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Select Introduction
Introductionpp 1-26
Collection Recollection Revolution
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Select 1 - <span class='italic'>Amateurs</span> and the Art Market in Transition (<span class='italic'>c.</span>1780–1830)
1 - Amateurs and the Art Market in Transition (c.1780–1830)pp 27-68
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Select 2 - Archiving and Envisioning the French Revolution (<span class='italic'>c.</span>1780–1830)
2 - Archiving and Envisioning the French Revolution (c.1780–1830)pp 69-115
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Select 3 - Book Hunting, Bibliophilia and a Textual Restoration (<span class='italic'>c.</span>1790–1840)
3 - Book Hunting, Bibliophilia and a Textual Restoration (c.1790–1840)pp 116-158
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Select 4 - Salvaging the Gothic in Private and Public Spaces (<span class='italic'>c.</span>1820–1870)
4 - Salvaging the Gothic in Private and Public Spaces (c.1820–1870)pp 159-202
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Select 5 - Royalists versus Vandals, and the Cult of the Old Regime (<span class='italic'>c.</span>1860–1880)
5 - Royalists versus Vandals, and the Cult of the Old Regime (c.1860–1880)pp 203-242
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Select 6 - Allies of the Republic?
6 - Allies of the Republic?pp 243-285
Inside The Sale Of The Century C 1870 1895
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Select Conclusion
Conclusionpp 286-300
The Resilience And Eclipse Of Curiosit
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Select Bibliography
Bibliographypp 301-345
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Select Index
Indexpp 346-362
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