The landscape of consumption
Subtitle: shopping streets and cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900
By: edited by Jan Hein Furnée (assistant professor of modern history, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Clé Lesger (associate professor of economic and social history, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780230355644
Subjects: Retail trade; History; Shopping; Streets; Central business districts; Public spaces; City planning; Consumption (Economics); Social exchange; Commerce; Social life and customs; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Modern / General; HISTORY / Social History
Description: "This volume brings together research on retailing and shopping and their embeddedness in urban space, themes that have attracted wide interest in recent decades. Addressing these themes over an era that bridges the early modern and modern period, the authors argue that the 'modernity' of the nineteenth century is often overemphasised, at the expense of recognising the continuities with the earlier period and the degree of innovation that took place before the onset of 'modernity'. This collection compares long-term developments in retail locations, retailing formats, regulation of shopping streets, and the cult of shopping for pleasure across a number of neighbouring countries and regions (Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands), and offers surprising new insights into the processes of cultural transfer, appropriation and exchange. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Shopping Streets and Shopping Cultures from a Long Term and Transnational Perspective : An Introduction / Clé Lesger and Jan Hein Furnée; title: 2. The Shopping Streets of Provincial England, 1650-1840 / Jon Stobart; title: 3. Stalls, Bulks, Shops and Long Term Change in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England / Claire Walsh; title: 4. Shopping Streets in Eighteenth-Century Paris : A Landscape Shaped by Historical, Economic and Social Forces / Natacha Coquery; title: 5. Antwerp goes Shopping! Continuity and Change in Retail Space and Shopping Interactions from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries / Ilja van Damme with Laura van Aert; title: 6. Urban Planning, Urban Improvement and the Retail Landscape in Amsterdam, 1600-1850 / Clé Lesger; title: 7. German Landscapes of Consumption, 1750-1850 : Perspectives of German and Foreign Travellers / Heidrun Homburg; title: 8. Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New : the Brussels Shopping Townscape, 1830-1914 / Anneleen Arnout; title: 9. Innovation and Tradition in the Shopping Landscape of Paris and a Provincial Town, 1800-1900 / Marie Gillet; title: 10. "Our Living Museum of Nouveaute's" : Visual and Social Pleasures in The Hague's Shopping Streets, 1650-1900 / Jan Hein Furnée.