Urban History

ISBN-13: 9781138797956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 1688 str.

Rosemary Sweet

Opis

With over half the world’s population now living in cities, urbanization is one of the defining features of the contemporary world, and urban history – the study of the processes and consequences of urbanization – is one of the most dynamic fields of modern and contemporary history. But the dynamism of urban history is not confined to the modern era and the study of urban societies in the less recent past equally represents a highly fertile field of scholarship.