Part I: Renaissance and Enlightenment. Agents and merchants : dealing before 1700 ; Crooks and connoisseurs : the eighteenth century

Part II: The nineteenth century. The art of speculation : William Buchanan ; Ernest Gambart and the Victorian art boom

Part III: Modern times. Joseph Duveen : the salesman as artist ; The Wildenstein dynasty ; Selling the new : Paul Durand-Ruel ; The enrichment of Ambroise Vollard ; Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler : dealer as purist ; The fox and the shrimp : the Rosenberg brothers ; Terrorists and tastemakers : more French dealers ; From Cassirer to Berggruen : the Germans ; Gentlemen and players : the British

Part IV: Into the contemporary world. Peter Wilson and the invention of the modern art market ; The art of shopping : dealing in the USA ; Leo Castelli and the American dream ; The cutting edge.