Affluence and Inequality in the Low Countries: The City of 's-Hertogenbosch in the Long Sixteenth Century, 1500-1650 - Couverture souple

Hanus, J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042931469 ISBN 13 : 9789042931466

Editeur : Peeters, 2014

Synopsis

Did the inhabitants of 's-Hertogenbosch benefit from the economic ebb and flow of the long sixteenth century (1500-1650)? Through this central question, Affluence and Inequality addresses wider issues of economic growth and decline in an (advanced) pre-industrial economy. Challenging traditional questions with innovative and ground-breaking methods leads to a fresh perspective on the economic and social history of the early modern Low Countries. Building on individual and household experience, connecting fiscal, financial, occupational and social dots, Jord Hanus shows that the so-called structural decline of the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries was in fact a next step in a series of structural transformations characterizing the Low Countries during the pre-industrial period. Also, even though poverty was very real for a minority of the urban populace, for the majority, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought agreeable living standards. In contrast to a range of southern European cities framed equal in poverty, the urban centres of the Low Countries were both unequal and affluent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peeters
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042931469
• ISBN 13: 9789042931466
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
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• Personne responsable: non disponible