The Landscape of Consumption [electronic resource] : Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900 /
Furnée, Jan Hein.editor.
Lesger, Clé.editor.
This volume brings together research on retailing, shopping and urban space; themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades. The authors argue that the 'modernity' of the nineteenth century is often over-emphasised at the expense of recognising earlier innovation.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Shopping Streets and Cultures from a Long-Term and Transnational Perspective: An Introduction; 2 The Shopping Streets of Provincial England, 1650-1840; 3 Stalls, Bulks, Shops and Long-Term Change in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England; 4 Shopping Streets in Eighteenth-Century Paris: A Landscape Shaped by Historical, Economic and Social Forces; 5 Antwerp Goes Shopping!: Continuity and Changein Retail Space and Shopping Interactions from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
6 Urban Planning, Urban Improvement and the Retail Landscape in Amsterdam, 1600-18507 German Landscapes of Consumption, 1750-1850: Perspectives of German and Foreign Travellers; 8 Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New: The Brussels Shopping Townscape, 1830-1914; 9 Innovation and Tradition in the Shopping Landscape of Paris and a Provincial City, 1800-1900; 10 ''Our Living Museum of Nouveautés'': Visual and Social Pleasures in The Hague''s Shopping Streets, 1650-1900; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume brings together research on retailing, shopping and urban space; themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades. The authors argue that the 'modernity' of the nineteenth century is often over-emphasised at the expense of recognising earlier innovation.
Social history.
Europe-History.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
Social History.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
European History.
Cultural History.
Sociology, general.
Modern History.