418 Pages
by
Routledge
418 Pages
by
Routledge
In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic and geographic... Read more
Part One: The Problem of the City in Early Modern Europe
1. The problem of the city in early modern Europe
Part Two: The Urban Population of Europe
2. Assembling the date base
3. The contours of European urbanization I
4. The contours of European urbanization II
Part Three: The Properties of the Urban System
5. Cities, Systems and Regions
6. The development of the urban hierarchy
7. Stability and discontinuity in European urban growth
8. The spatial pattern of European urbanization
Part Four: Dynamics of Urban Growth
9. Demography of the early modern city
10. Migration and urban growth
Part Four: Conclusions
11. Conclusions
Biography
Jan de Vries
