Small Towns in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780521464635 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 332 str.

Peter Clark (University of Leicester)

Opis

Small towns comprised the great majority of urban settlements in pre-industrial Europe, but very little is known about them and their economic and social world. This is the first major work in English to give a pan-European perspective on the changing role of small towns from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Chapters by leading experts in the field look at small communities from the Hungarian Plain to western Ireland, from Sweden to Spain, and the general introduction provides a broad comparative perspective.

Recenzje

"Here we have a collection of essays that advances both general history and the urban theme it addresses: specialists in the history of the European regions that are covered will welcome some very useful additions to the literature in English." Alan Dyer, Journal of Modern History

Spis treści

Editorial preface; 1. Introduction Peter Clark; 2. The mainstays of the urban fringe: Norwegian small towns 1500–1800 Finn-Einar Eliassen; 3. Small towns in the periphery: population and economy of small towns in Sweden and Finland during the early modern period Sven Lilja; 4. Small towns in eastern central Europe Vera Bacskai; 5. Small towns in England 1550–1850: national and regional trends Peter Clark; 6. The cultural role of small towns in England 1600–1800 Michael Reed; 7. Small towns in early modern Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 8. In search of the small town in early nineteenth-century France Bernard Lepetit; 9. Small towns in early modern Germany: the case of Hesse 1500–1800 Holger Graf; 10. Demography and hierarchy: the small towns and the urban network in sixteenth-century Flanders Peter Stabel; 11. Domestic demand and urbanization in the eighteenth century: demographic and functional evidence from the small towns of Brabant Bruno Blonde; 12. The small towns of northern Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: an overview Peter Musgrave; 13. Cities, towns and small towns in Castile 1500–1800 Juan Gelabert; Bibliography; Index.