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

nineteenth-century engraving by Adrien Cannelle, printed by Simonan B. Toovey 8.2 A rather empty Marché de la Madeleine (publisher and author unknown) 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 x Notes on Contributors Anneleen Arnout studied cultural history at the University of Leuven and cultural heritage at the University of Utrecht. She currently holds a PhD fellowship of the Research Foundation -Flanders (FWO). She is affiliated with the universities of Leuven and Antwerp and is preparing a dissertation on the history of shopping culture in nineteenth-century Brussels. Recent publications include articles on nineteenth-century art auctions, the spatial distribution of art and antique markets in Brussels and the concept of cultural heritage and public history. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Illustrations, Maps andTables 8 Notes on Contributors 11 Acknowledgements 14 1 Shopping Streets and Culturesfrom a Long-Term andTransnational Perspective 15 2 The Shopping Streets of ProvincialEngland, 1650–1840 30 3Stalls, Bulks, Shops and Long-Term Change in Seventeenth- andEighteenth-Century England 51 4 Shopping Streets in Eighteenth-Century Paris 71 5 Antwerp Goes Shopping!Continuity and Change in Retail Space andShopping Interactions from the Sixteenth to theNineteenth Century 92 6 Urban Planning, UrbanImprovement and the RetailLandscape in Amsterdam,1600–1850 118 7 German Landscapes ofConsumption, 1750–1850Perspectives of German and Foreign Travellers 139 8 Something Old, SomethingBorrowed, Something NewThe Brussels Shopping Townscape, 1830–1914 171 9 Innovation and Tradition in theShopping Landscape of Paris and aProvincial City, 1800–1900 198 10 ‘Our Living Museum ofNouveautés’: Visual and SocialPleasures in The Hague’s ShoppingStreets, 1650–1900 222 Select Bibliography 246 Index 257 Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Shopping Streets and Cultures from a Long-Term and Transnational Perspective....Pages 1-15 The Shopping Streets of Provincial England, 1650–1840....Pages 16-36 Stalls, Bulks, Shops and Long-Term Change in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England....Pages 37-56 Shopping Streets in Eighteenth-Century Paris....Pages 57-77 Antwerp Goes Shopping!....Pages 78-103 Urban Planning, Urban Improvement and the Retail Landscape in Amsterdam, 1600–1850....Pages 104-124 German Landscapes of Consumption, 1750–1850....Pages 125-156 Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something New....Pages 157-183 Innovation and Tradition in the Shopping Landscape of Paris and a Provincial City, 1800–1900....Pages 184-207 ‘Our Living Museum of Nouveautés’: Visual and Social Pleasures in The Hague’s Shopping Streets, 1650–1900....Pages 208-231 Back Matter....Pages 232-246 "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. "--