Anneleen Arnout

Streets of Splendor (eBook, ePUB)

Shopping Culture and Spaces in a European Capital City (Brussels, 1830-1914)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the unresolved question of how urban retailing and consumption changed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It replaces the usual focus on just one (type of) shopping institution with that of the urban shopping-scape in its entirety. Based on an in-depth empirical analysis of Brussels and secondary sources on other (comparable) cities, the author demonstrates that the unbridled commercialisation of cities in the nineteenth century cannot be understood without taking into account the entirety of the shopping landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351216364
• Artikelnr.: 57896021

Autorenporträt

Anneleen Arnout is Postdoctoral Fellow at the history department of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She holds a Veni-grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Setting up shop. Introduction
1 Bursting blossoms. Brussels shops & shopping, 1830s
Late bloom
Portrait of a town
Sequences and dots
The shop and its keeper
Around the corner
2 Shopping in style. The Galeries Saint-Hubert and the Chaussée
Brussels when it sizzles
A site of modernity
hopping in 'space'
Close encounters
Conclusion: a site of modernity?
3 Cleaning house. Markets and halls
Chronicle of a demise foretold?
Under pressure
The best laid plans
Exploring shadows
Conclusion: divide and conquer
4 Bigger and brighter. Downtown and the department store
Noah's ark
Department stores in Brussels
Location, location, location
A frenzy for more
Conclusion: shopping on speed
5 Shopping Galore. Brussels shops & shopping, 1910s
Full bloom
Portrait of a city: Belle Epoque Brussels
Density and diversity
Conclusion: shopping galore
6 Closing time. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index