After-death inventories as a source for the study of material culture, economic well-being, and household formation among the poor of eighteenth-century Amsterdam

Historical Methods

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-23

  McCants, Anne ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

After death inventories; Consumer culture; Data coding; Eighteenth century Amsterdam

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; ECONOMIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY;

AMSTERDAM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH HOLLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745335298     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/HMTS.39.1.10-23     Document Type: Article

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