Title & Author:

Small towns in early modern Europe / edited by Peter Clark.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Description:

xx, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Themes in international urban history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-301) and index.
The mainstays of the urban fringe : Norwegian small towns 1500-1800 / Finn-Einar Eliassen -- Small towns in the periphery : population and economy of small towns in Sweden and Finland during the early modern period / Sven Lilja -- Small towns in Eastern Central Europe / Vera Bácskai -- Small towns in England 1550-1850 : national and regional population trends / Peter Clark -- The cultural role of small towns in England 1600-1800 / Michael Reed -- Small towns in early modern Ireland / Raymond Gillespie -- In search of the small town in early nineteenth-century France / Bernard LePetit -- Small towns in early modern Germany : the case of Hesse 1500-1800 / Holger Gräf -- Demography and hierarchy : the small towns and the urban network in sixteenth-century Flanders / Peter Stabel -- Domestic demand and urbanisation in the eighteenth century : demographic and functional evidence for small towns of Brabant / Bruno Blondé -- The small towns of Northern Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : an overview / Peter Musgrave -- Cities, towns and small towns in Castile, 1500-1800 / Juan Gelabert.

Summary:

Little has been written about the thousands of small towns which played a key role in the economic, social and cultural life of early modern Europe. This collection provides the first comparative overview of European small towns from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, examining their position in the urban hierarchy, demographic structures, economic trends, relations with the countryside, and political and cultural developments. Case studies discuss networks in all the major European countries as well as looking at the distinctive world of small towns in the more 'peripheral' countries of Scandinavia and central Europe.

Resources:
Sample text
Table of contents
Publisher description
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

0521464633 (hc)
9780521464635 (hc)
2735106101 (France)
9782735106103 (France)

Subject:

Cities and towns Europe History.
Villes Europe Histoire.
Cities and towns.
Kleine steden.
Petites villes Europe Histoire 1500-1800.
Europe History, Local.
Europe Histoire locale.
Europe.
Towns History

Form/genre:

History.
Local history.

Added entries:

Clark, Peter, 1944-
Themes in international urban history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116415
Call No.: ID D210.S62; ID:95-B1138
Status: Available