The Landscape of Consumption

Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-230-35564-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 4336 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lesger, Clé

Furneé, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Shopping Streets and Shopping Cultures from a Long Term and Transnational Perspective: An Introduction; Clé Lesger and Jan Hein Furnée 2. The Shopping Streets of Provincial England, 1650-1840; Jon Stobart 3. Stalls, Bulks, Shops and Long Term Change in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England; Claire Walsh 4. Shopping Streets in Eighteenth-Century Paris: A Landscape Shaped by Historical, Economic and Social Forces; Natacha Coquery 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 6. Urban Planning, Urban Improvement and the Retail Landscape in Amsterdam, 1600-1850; Clé Lesger 7. German Landscapes of Consumption, 1750-1850: Perspectives of German and Foreign Travellers; Heidrun Homburg 8. Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New: the Brussels Shopping Townscape, 1830-1914; Anneleen Arnout 9. Innovation and Tradition in the Shopping Landscape of Paris and a Provincial Town, 1800-1900; Marie Gillet, 10. 'Our Living Museum of Nouveautés': Visual and Social Pleasures in The Hague's Shopping Streets, 1650-1900; Jan Hein Furnée

Über Autor(innen)

Anneleen Arnout, University of Leuven, Belgium
Natacha Coquery, University of Lyon 2, France
Marie Gillet, University of Franche-Comté, France
Heidrun Homburg, University of Freiburg, Germany
Jon Stobart, University of Northampton, UK
Laura van Aert, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ilja Van Damme, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Claire Walsh, Open University, UK