Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BIbliografia Colonizzazioni interne Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource ‘Le pays où on ne sait pas lire’: Literacy, Numeracy and Human Capital in the Commercial Hub of the Austrian Netherlands (1715–75) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gerrit Verhoeven Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-04-01 Language A language of the resource en Zotero Title ‘Le pays où on ne sait pas lire’: Literacy, Numeracy and Human Capital in the Commercial Hub of the Austrian Netherlands (1715–75) Item Type Journal Article Author Gerrit Verhoeven URL http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/44/2/223 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 223-243 Publication Title European History Quarterly ISSN 0265-6914, 1461-7110 Date 2014-04-01 Journal Abbreviation European History Quarterly DOI 10.1177/0265691414523549 Access Date 2014-06-24 08:46:38 Library Catalog ehq.sagepub.com Language en Abstract Note Files of the local criminal court in Antwerp – the Hoogere Vierschaar – are used in this article to assess the evolution of literacy and numeracy in Antwerp. Both forms of human capital are habitually seen as strongly intertwined, yet our evidence shows that they were not always geared to one another. Literacy did not grow significantly in Antwerp during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while it reached its high-water mark in other European towns. Faced by a severe economic crisis, the local government had to trim down free public education in Sunday schools, while private boarding schools (Duytsche scholen) saw their number of pupils fall abruptly as the recession impoverished a wide swath of society. Numeracy, however, followed a different course. Despite the economic crisis, people's age awareness took a huge leap forward in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as basic arithmetic skills were bound to a more informal, everyday training. Moreover, this idea, that literacy and numeracy were not always geared to each other is buttressed by marked social and gender variations. Short Title ‘Le pays où on ne sait pas lire’ Attachment Title Snapshot Olanda