dc.contributor.author | HUTCHISON, Ragnhild | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-15T09:19:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-03-15T09:19:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | [Leiden], Brill, 2012, Library of Economic History | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789004214446 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1877-3206 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/21216 | |
dc.description.abstract | Set within the growing literature on European economy in the late 18th and early 19th century, this book furnishes a 'pre-history' to Norway’s rapid structural transformation and accelerated economic growth after the mid-nineteenth century. It argues that Norway in the long 18th century benefitted from an export-led growth, which exploited its abundant natural resources. The income from exports fuelled a substantial increase in consumption among rural households, while “pluriactivity”, a household strategy to balance market oriented production and consumption with self sufficiency in the insufficiently developed market succeeded in offering a “soft way” toward modern market society. | en |
dc.description.tableofcontents | -- 1. Introduction
1 Hypothesis
2 Structure
3 Theory
4 Historiography of consumption in the early modern period
5 The methods used
6 The sources; their possibilities and challenges
-- 2. Politics, Population and Production: Norway at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
1 Politics
2 Population and social groups
2.1 Social differentiation
3 Production
3.1 Agriculture
3.2 The export trades
3.3 Pre-industrial manufacturing
4 Imports
5 Financial system
6 Conclusion
-- 3. The Development of an Internal Market in Pre-industrial Norway
1 Internal market formation
2 Signs of market integration in Norway
3 The process of market integration in Norway
3.1 Transportation infrastructure
3.2 Jurisdictional change: the opening of trade
3.3 New retail forms: guesthouses and rural shops
4 Conclusion
-- 4. Rural Households’ Allocation of Resources and Material Wealth
1 Norwegian rural farmers’ annual budget
1.1 Incomes
1.2 Expenditures
2 Material wealth seen through probate inventories
2.1 Wealth disparities as seen using probate inventories
2.2 Material wealth tied up in goods
3 General trends
4 Conclusion
-- 5. Changing Trends in Housing, Furnishings and Smaller Household Goods
1 Comfort
1.1. Housing
1.2 Furnishings
1.3 Smaller household goods
2 How were the changes possible?
2.1 Predictability and security: taxation and rents
2.2 Breakability
3 Social and economic consequences
4 Conclusion
-- 6. Bites, Nibbles, Sips and Puffs – New Foodstuffs in Rural Norway
1 From proteins to carbohydrates
2 The spread of exotic goods
2.1 Sugar and chocolate
2.2 Coffee and tea
2.3 Tobacco
2.4 Share of wages spent on exotic goods
2.5 Norwegian exotic goods consumption compared
3 The circumstances of the consumption
4 Conclusion
-- 7. Conclusion: The Slow but Safe Path to a Market Economy | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Brill | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14375 | |
dc.subject | Norway | en |
dc.subject | Economic history | en |
dc.subject | Early modern history | en |
dc.title | In the doorway to development : an enquiry into market oriented structural changes in Norway ca. 1750-1830 | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
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dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2010 | en |