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  3. Town and Country in Europe, 1300–1800
  • Cited by 25
  • Edited by S. R. Epstein, London School of Economics and Political Science
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2009
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511523267
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523267
Series:
Themes in International Urban History (5)
Subjects:
Area Studies, Sociology: General Interest, Geography, Historical Geography, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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Book description

Relations between town and country are central to Europe's long-term economic, political and social evolution. This 2001 book surveys and re-interprets these relations in particular countries and regions in the light of the most recent debates on state formation, urbanisation, proto-industrialisation, and the regional character of pre-modern economic growth. Thirteen specially commissioned chapters, ranging chronologically from the Black Death to the Enlightenment, give a comprehensive coverage of Europe, from Spain to Sweden and England, and from the Polish Commonwealth to Holland and Italy. Each chapter offers a self-contained analysis of its country or region and provides a basis for systematic comparison. The Introduction (by S. R. Epstein) discusses the historiographical and theoretical framework for the regional chapters, emphasising how evolving political configurations changed the balance between 'coercive' and 'market-based' solutions to town-country relations and set countries on different paths to growth.

Reviews

"The dozen essays in this well-edited volume provide a well-balanced and geographically extensive introduction to the current state of scholarship on the relation between town and country in late medieval and early modern Europe." Renaissance and Reformation

"The essays are imformed by current historiographical thinking and are highly readable." CHOICE Jan 2002

"This volume is one of the freshest and fullest treatments of scholarship about town and country relations in premodern European urban history, and deserves a wide and appreciative reading. This is shrewd economic history that details, complicates, and therefore advances our understanding of a central theme of urban history." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"This is an important and thought-provoking collection..." Canadian Journal of History

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