Clé Lesger 
The Landscape of Consumption [PDF ebook] 
Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600-1900

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

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