Selfish Gifts

Selfish Gifts
Author: Alison V. Scott
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838640821

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Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their existing discourses of gift exchange, in order to maximize the rewards they might induce from an increasingly diverse group of patrons."--Jacket.