"Cultivateurs et commerçans": Huishoudelijke productie, consumptie en de industrious revolution in het hertogdom Brabant (1680-1800) KU Leuven
Central to my research is the question whether documented changes in consumption and material culture in the cities of Antwerp and Brussels from the last quarter of the 17th century onwards triggered an industrious revolution in the surrounding countryside. Central to the notion of an industrious revolution are simultaneous changes in household production and consumption, whereby consumer aspirations triggered an intensification of ...