The Landscape of Consumption: Shopping Streets and Cultures in Western Europe, 1600–1900

260 Pages·2014·17.206 MB·English

by  Jan Hein Furnée, Clé Lesger (eds.)

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The Landscape of Consumption
Jan Hein Furnée, Plaatsen van beschaafd vertier. Standsbesef en stedelijke cultuur in
Den Haag, 1850–1890 (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2012)
Clé Lesger, Het winkellandschap van Amsterdam. Stedelijke structuur en
winkelbedrijf in de vroegmoderne en moderne tijd, 1550–2000 (Hilversum:
Verloren, 2013)
Clé Lesger, The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange.
Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low
Countries, c.1550–1630 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
C. Lesger and L. Noordegraaf (eds.), Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Early
Modern Times. Merchants and Industrialists within the Orbit of the Dutch Staple
Market, Hollandse Historische Reeks, XXIV (The Hague, 1995)
The Landscape of
Consumption
Shopping Streets and Cultures
in Western Europe, 1600–1900
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
Editorial matter, selection and introduction © Jan Hein Furnée and
Clé Lesger 2014
Remaining chapters © Respective authors 2014
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Contents
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Shopping Streets and Cultures from a Long-Term
and Transnational Perspective: An Introduction 1
Clé Lesger and Jan Hein Furnée
2 The Shopping Streets of Provincial England, 1650–1840 16
Jon Stobart
3 Stalls, Bulks, Shops and Long-Term Change
in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England 37
Claire Walsh
4 Shopping Streets in Eighteenth-Century Paris:
A Landscape Shaped by Historical, Economic
and Social Forces 57
Natacha Coquery
5 Antwerp Goes Shopping!: Continuity and Change
in Retail Space and Shopping Interactions from
the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 78
Ilja Van Damme with Laura Van Aert
6 Urban Planning, Urban Improvement and
the Retail Landscape in Amsterdam, 1600–1850 104
Clé Lesger
7 German Landscapes of Consumption, 1750–1850:
Perspectives of German and Foreign Travellers 125
Heidrun Homburg
8 Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New:
The Brussels Shopping Townscape, 1830–1914 157
Anneleen Arnout
9 Innovation and Tradition in the Shopping Landscape
of Paris and a Provincial City, 1800–1900 184
Marie Gillet
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vi Contents
10 ‘Our Living Museum of Nouveautés’: Visual
and Social Pleasures in The Hague’s Shopping
Streets, 1650–1900 208
Jan Hein Furnée
Select Bibliography 232
Index 243
List of Illustrations, Maps and
Tables
Figures
2.1 Eastgate Street Row, Chester, 1831 20
2.2 Shop fronts, enclosed, with large bow windows set
either side of a central door. New Triennial Directory of
Birmingham, 1812 23
3.1 Satirical print, ‘A New Way to Secure a Majority’,
artist unknown, uncoloured etching, 1784 39
3.2 View of Bishopsgate, showing St Ethelburga-the-Virgin,
1736, engraved by W. H. Toms 40
3.3 Illustration to a ballad, ‘The Widow Waddle of
Chickabiddy Lane’, 1808 43
3.4 No. 37 Stonegate, York, late eighteenth century/early
nineteenth century 52
3.5 ‘Crooked Lane, London,’ by George Scharf,
watercolour, 1831 53
5.1 Selling Vegetables on the Eiermarkt, by Samuel Prout,
drawing, Antwerp, c.1840 82
6.1 The brush-maker’s shop: Het menselyk bedrijf
by Jan and Caspar Luiken, 1694 110
6.2 Kalverstraat near Dam Square, 1825 118
6.3 Kalverstraat near Dam Square, 1850 119
6.4 Shop of A. Heyman on Dam Square and
Kalverstraat, c.1850 120
7.1 Scene of the Leipzig Fair, by Georg Emanuel Opiz, 1825 139
7.2 View of Berlin, Molkenmarkt by Johann
Georg Rosenberg, 1785 141
7.3 Sillem’s Bazar Hamburg by J. Gray, c.1845 144
7.4 Woman at the Window by Caspar David Friedrich, 1822 149
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viii List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
8.1 B ustle in the Galeries Saint-Hubert: nineteenth-century
engraving by Adrien Cannelle, printed by
Simonan B. Toovey 159
8.2 A rather empty Marché de la Madeleine
(publisher and author unknown) 160
8.3 A view of the vestibule of the Galeries du commerce
and the shop windows of Maison Hirsch, printed in
L’Eventail, c.1900 167
9.1 Galeries de Bois in the Palais-Royal, c.1820 186
9.2 The boulevard des Italiens, 1858 190
9.3 The Grande Rue in Besançon, 1901–08 200
10.1 Dagelijkse Groenmarkt, c.1750 212
10.2 Happel’s Bazar in fancy articles, Spuistraat, 1855 220
10.3 B. Bahlman’s drapery store, Hoogstraat, 1875 221
10.4 Venestraat, 1907 222
Maps
4.1 Main shopping streets in Paris (all trades), 1769 58
4.2 Location of grocers, Paris, 1769 69
4.3 Location of luxury trades, Paris, 1769 71
4.4 Location of jewellers, Paris, 1769 72
5.1 Provisioning markets in Antwerp around 1848 81
5.2 Main shopping streets in Antwerp, 1636 89
5.3 Main shopping streets in Antwerp, 1700 90
5.4 Main shopping streets in Antwerp, 1788 91
5.5 Main shopping streets in Antwerp, 1834 92
5.6 Second-hand markets in Antwerp around 1848 97
6.1 Main shopping streets in early modern Amsterdam 112
8.1 Brussels in 1862, before the construction
of Boulevard Anspach 158
8.2 Brussels around 1900, after the construction
of Boulevard Anspach 163
9.1 Locations of covered passages in Paris, 1780–1850 187
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables ix
Tables
4.1 Composition and size of occupational groups in Paris, 1769 61
5.1 Division of shopkeepers according to type of goods sold
and location, Antwerp 1636, 1700 and 1788 84
5.2 Number of shopping streets with commercial importance
divided by social category, Antwerp 1700 and 1788 94