Small Towns In Early Modern Europe

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893749
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Towns in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the great wave of publications on European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period, 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, written by leading experts, redresses that imbalance. It provides the first comparative overview of European small towns from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century, 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. A wide-ranging editorial introduction puts individual chapters in historical perspective.

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towns and Networks in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Clark and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher R. Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901843
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Modern City 1450-1750 written by Christopher R. Friedrichs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering text which covers the urban society of early modern Europe as a whole. Challenges the usual emphasis on regional diversity by stressing the extent to which cities across Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant throughout the period. After outlining the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life, the author vividly depicts the everyday routines of city life and shows how pitifully vulnerable city-dwellers were to disasters, epidemics, warfare and internal strife.

Author : Riitta Laitinen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004172513
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets written by Riitta Laitinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In urban life, streets are elemental, but urban history seldom places them centre stage. It tends to view them as mere backdrops for events or social relations, or to study them as material constructions, the fruit of urban planning, but largely vacant of inhabitants. Examining people and streets in tandem, the contributors to this volume strive towards more integrated urban history. They discuss the social and political processes of early modern street life, and the discursive play in which streets figured. Six chapters, based in Sweden-Finland, England, Portugal, Italy, and Transylvania, discuss the subtle interplay of the material and immaterial, public and private, planned order and versatility, spontaneous invention, control and resistance a " all matters central to how streets worked. Contributors are Emese BAlint, Maria Helena Barreiros, Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen, Alexander Cowan, Anu Korhonen, Riitta Laitinen, and Dag LindstrAm.

Author : Benito Rial Costas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004235752
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe written by Benito Rial Costas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.

Author : Justin Colson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351983628
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and Solidarities written by Justin Colson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and informal institutions, and the strategies of individual town dwellers that explain the similarities and differences in the organisation and functioning of urban communities in pre-modern Europe. It considers how communities within cities and towns are constructed and reconstructed, how interactions amongst members of differing groups created social and economic institutions, and how urban communities reflected a sense of social cohesion. In answering these questions, the contributions combine theoretical frameworks with new digital methodologies in order to provoke further discussion into the fundamental nature of urban society in this key period of change. The essays in this collection demonstrate the complexities of urban societies in pre-modern Europe, and will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of medieval and early modern urban history.

Author : Tom Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199274606
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 written by Tom Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first comprehensive study of city-states in medieval Europe, Tom Scott analyzes reasons for cities' aquisitions of territory and how they were governed. He argues that city-states did not wither after 1500, but survived by transformation and adaption.

Author : Peter Borsay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197262481
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland written by Peter Borsay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134725388
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern European Society written by Henry Kamen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together common features of society from a range of different contexts throughout Europe, from Italy and Spain to Poland and Russia, Early Modern European Society surveys the sweeping changes affecting Europe from the end of the fifteenth century to the early decades of the eighteenth century. Henry Kamen includes discussion on:European identities, frontiers and languageleisure, work and migrationreligion, ritual and witchcraftthe aristocracy, the bourgeoisie and the poorgender rolessocial discipline and absolu.

Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134130651
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763 written by Chris Cook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact and highly accessible work of reference covers the broad sweep of events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This Companion examines the centuries that saw the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the expansion of Europe and the beginnings of imperialism and enormous changes in the way government and kingship were conducted. With a wealth of chronologies, tables, family trees and maps, this handy book is an indispensable resource for all students and teachers of early modern history.