In the Doorway to Development

An Enquiry Into Market Oriented Structural Changes in Norway Ca. 1750-1830
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21444-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Library of Economic History

Consumption; production; internal market development; exotic goods; industrious revolution; economic development; economic growth

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutchison, Ragnhild

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hutchison, Ragnhild
Ragnhild Hutchison, Ph.D. (2010) in History, European University Institute, Florence, is Post Doc in History at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. She has worked extensively on production and consumption in the Early Modern Period.