Screen LibraryInequality and the city in the Low Countries (1200-2020) /
"Social inequality is one of the most pressing global challenges at the start of the 21st century. Meanwhile, across the globe at least half of the world's population lives in urban agglomerations, and urbanisation is still expanding. This book engages with the complex interplay between ur...
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Brepols,
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| Publisher Address: | Turnhout, Belgium : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Studies in European urban history (1100-1800),
volume 50 |
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| Summary: |
"Social inequality is one of the most pressing global challenges at the start of the 21st century. Meanwhile, across the globe at least half of the world's population lives in urban agglomerations, and urbanisation is still expanding. This book engages with the complex interplay between urbanisation and inequality. In doing so it concentrates on the Low Countries, one of the oldest and most urbanised societies of Europe. It questions whether the historic poly-nuclear and decentralised urban system of the Low Countries contributed to specific outcomes in social inequality. In doing so, the authors look beyond the most commonly used perspective of economic inequality. They instead expand our knowledge by exploring social inequality from a multidimensional perspective. This book includes essays and case-studies on cultural inequalities, the relationship between social and consumption inequality, the politics of (in)equality, the impact of shocks and crises, as well as the complex social relationships across the urban network and between town and countryside."--Back cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 409 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9782503588681 (hardback) : 2503588689 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HN500 |
| CLC: | D750.61-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.61-09/I429 |
| Contents: |
Introduction : The Low Countries' Paradox : Historical Perspectives on Inequality and the City / The Urbanisation of Inequality -- Get Rich and Try Dyeing : Cloth Production and Social Inequality in Town and Countryside (Sixteenth Century) / Did Urban Manure Nourish the Country? : Social Consequences of Fertiliser Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Flemish Farming / Cities in Motion : Mobility, Migration Selectivity and Demographic Change in Belgian Cities, 1846-1910 / Organising the Work-Home Split by the Urban-Rural Link : Transport Networks, Mobility and Urbanisation in Early Twentieth-Century Belgium / The City and the Parking Lot : Movement and Standstill on the 2ist-century Urban Labour Market / Politics of Inequality -- The Impact of Urban Elites' Political Participation on Economic Policy in the Low Countries 1100-1600 / Si grant inégalite? : Town, Countryside and Taxation in Flanders, c. 1350-c. 1500 / The Rise of the Fiscal State? : Urban Finances, Politics and Social Inequality in Sixteenth-Century 's-Hertogenbosch / An Experiment of Social Equality? : The Case of the Calvinist Republic in Antwerp (1577-1585) / Law Courts and Social Inequality in the Cities of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries / Shocks, Crises and Inequality The Great Destruction of People and Wealth : The Impact of the Ghent Revolt on Wealth Inequality in the Last Quarter of the Fourteenth Century / Levelling Through Space? : The Redistributive Capacity of Demographic Decline in Antwerp's Darkest Hour (1584-1586) / Real Property, Speculation and Housing Inequality : Bruges, 1550-1670 / Cultural and Consumer Dynamics of Inequality -- Craft Guilds as Vectors of Middle-Class Values / In Haste for Better Taste? : The Social Effects of Changing Dining Cultures in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bruges / Comforts of Difference : Social Inequality and the Material Culture of Energy in Eighteenth-Century Ghent / Violent classes? : Interpersonal Violence and Social Inequality in Mechelen, 1350-1700 / The New Police as Agents of Class Control? : Urban Policing and its Socio-Geographical Focus in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp / Methodological, Theoretical and Contemporary Perspectives -- How was City Life? : Moving beyond GDP and Real Income to Measure Pre-modern Welfare and Inequality Levels / Diachrony, Synchrony and Modernity : How to Contribute to the Debate on Economic Inequality from an Historical Perspective? / Different systems and inequalities? : Comparing education in the Low Countries / |