The Economic history review, 2010-08, Vol.63 (3), p.638-663
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Retail growth and consumer changes in a declining urban economy: Antwerp (1650-1750)
- Ist Teil von
- The Economic history review, 2010-08, Vol.63 (3), p.638-663
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This article examines the interplay between retail changes and transformations in the material culture of Antwerp, a provincial town in the southern Netherlands. We argue that major changes in the eighteenth-century material culture and retail sector were not significantly linked to preconditions of economic growth and urbanization. The Antwerp 'retail paradox' is that of a shrinking economic horizon running parallel to material culture and retail transformations, usually connected to expanding urban economies and societies. Changing retail and consumer practices explain the growing and prospering retail sector, rather than a growing economy.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0013-0117eISSN: 1468-0289DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00503.xTitel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_733963323
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 17th century, Belgium, Commerce - economics, Commerce - education, Commerce - history, Consumer Behavior - economics, Consumer behaviour, Consumer economics, Consumer goods, Consumer tastes, Culture, Developing Countries - economics, Developing Countries - history, Economic growth, Economic history, Employment - economics, Employment - history, Employment - psychology, History of medicine, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, Income - history, Inventories, Material culture, Netherlands - ethnology, Probate law, Retail stores, Retail trade, Retailing industry, Social Change - history, Social Conditions - economics, Social Conditions - history, Socioeconomic Factors, Studies, Urban development, Urban economics, Urban Health - history, Urban Population - history, Urbanization, Urbanization - history