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Keeping Hold

Name: Keeping Hold
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009617598
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ISBN: 9781009617598

Contributor(s): Smith, Kate Author Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9781009617598
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	January 2026
Language	English
MRP	£90.00 GBP
Page count	284
Item weight	121 g

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? And how did people experience the loss of a treasured belonging? Keeping Hold explores how Britons owned watches, bank notes and dogs in this period, and also people, and how these different 'things' shaped understandings of ownership. Kate Smith examines the meaning of possession by exploring how owners experienced and responded to its loss, particularly within urban spaces. She illuminates the complex systems of reclamation that emerged and the skills they demanded. Incorporating a systematic study of 'lost' and 'runaway' notices from London newspapers, Smith demonstrates how owners invested time, effort and money into reclaiming their possessions. Characterising the eighteenth century as a period of loss and losing, Keeping Hold uncovers how understandings of self-worth came to be bound up with possession, with destructive implications.

Keeping Hold

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Smith, Kate Author

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