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In the doorway to development [electronic resource] : an enquiry into market oriented structural changes in Norway ca. 1750-1830 / by Ragnhild Hutchison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutchison, Ragnhild.
- Series:
- Library of economic history ; v. 3.
- Library of economic history, 1877-3206 ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Norway--History.
- Economic development.
- Norway--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Norway.
- Norway--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Norway--Commerce--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Politics, Population and Production: Norway at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
- The Development of an Internal Market in Pre-Industrial Norway
- Rural Households’ Allocation of Resources and Material Wealth
- Changing Trends in Housing, Furnishings and Smaller Household Goods
- Bites, Nibbles, Sips and Pufff: New Foodstufffs in Rural Norway
- Conclusion: The Slow but Safe Path to a Market Economy
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-12674-4
- 9786613530608
- 90-04-22566-8
- OCLC:
- 782879957
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004225664 DOI
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