This paper proposes a comparative study of social mobility between peasant and commercial societies in two distinct rural areas of Europe, namely the Low Countries and Piedmont. The paper focuses on changing consumption patterns under the frame of the premodern consumer revolution to identify what kind of society was more mobile. The adoption of new facets of consumption especially in the form of novel luxuries and colonial products has long been identified as an effort from households to adopt more refined lifestyles thus improving their prestige and status relative to the rest of society. It will be shown that while commercial societies appeared better at promoting the circulation of prestigious goods across social groups, the phenomenon remained highly elitist.
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0002-7159-2125
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0003-2885-6989
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0003-4441-5403
Titolo del capitolo
Economic growth and prosperity: two sides of the same coin? A comparison of the countryside of Antwerp and Piedmont in the long eighteenth century
Autori
Alberto Concina, Maïka De Keyzer, Jan Peeters
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.15
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Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
La mobilità sociale nelle società preindustriali: tendenze, cause ed effetti (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Social mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
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Numero di pagine
612
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0666-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0667-9
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0668-6
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195