Wealth and poverty in European rural societies from the Sixteenth to Nineteenth century. (Turhout: Brepols, 2014). (Edited volume, together with John Broad).
‘Things by which one measures one’s life. Wealth and poverty in European rural societies’. In John Broad & Anton Schuurman (Eds.), Wealth and poverty in European rural societies. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014, 1-37.
‘From citizen to consumer to citizen-consumer? The development of the welfare state and the consumer society’, in: Hester Moerbeek, Anke Niehof, Johan van Ophem (eds.), Changing families and their lifestyles. Mansholt publication series. Volume 5 (Wageningen:Wageningen Academic Publisher, 2007) 213-231.
Aards Geluk. De Nederlanders en hun spullen, 1550-1850 (Earthly happiness. The Dutch and their objects) (Amsterdam: Balans, 1997) 350 blz. (together with Jan de Vries en Ad van der Woude)
Material culture: consumption, life-style, standard of living, 1500-1900 (Milano: Università Bocconi, 1994) 174 blz. (together with L.S. Walsh).
Inventaires après décès et ventes des meubles. Apports à une histoire de la vie économique et quotidienne, XIVe-XIXe siècles, Louvain-la-Neuve (Academia) 1988 (391 blz.). (together with Micheline Baulant and Paul Servais)
Materiële cultuur en levensstijl. Een onderzoek naar de taal der dingen op het Nederlandse platteland in de 19e eeuw. De Zaanstreek, Oost-Groningen, Oost-Brabant, Wageningen (Material culture and lifestyle. The language of things in the Dutch 19th century countryside) (A.A.G. Bijdragen 30) and Utrecht 1989
Wonen in het verleden, 17e-20e eeuw. Economie, politiek, volkshuisvesting, cultuur en bibliografie (Housing in the past. 17th – 20th centuries. Economics, politics, housing policy, culture and bibliography), Amsterdam 1987 (NEHA-SERIES III). (together with P.M.M. Klep, J.Th. Lindblad, P. Singelenberg, Th. van Tijn)
Probate inventories. A new source for the historical study of wealth, material culture and agricultural development, Wageningen (A.A.G. Bijdragen 23) and Utrecht 1980 (320 blz.). (together with Ad van der Woude)