Small Towns and Cities in World History
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Edited by Peter Clark
Hardback (Published)
(June 2026)
ISBN: 9782503610016
7 x 10 inches
Price: $124.00
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This volume examines the evolution of the cities role and impact in the main urban networks and systems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
This volume provides for the first time a comparative view of the development of small towns and smaller cities across the world from the Middle Ages to the present day. It examines the evolution of their role and impact in the main urban networks and systems in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. It focuses on key topics and cutting edge questions relating to the urban economy, population, social life, governance and cultural life. Reassessing the conventional picture of small towns in decline, it argues for the dynamic dimension of their development and their importance for global urbanisation over the long run. This is a major pioneering study, bringing together the latest research by leading and younger scholars which sheds sustained light on a major component of the urban system in both the Global North and South, and thus makes an essential contribution to understanding world urban development over time.
Authors’ Biographies
Preface
1.Introduction
Peter Clark
2. Small towns and urbanization in medieval England
Christopher Dyer
3. Small towns in late medieval Hungary: levels and factors of urbanity
Katalin Szende
4. Small towns in China: History and policy from the Middle Ages to the Present
William T. Rowe
5. The evolution of Castilian small towns: context and forces for Change in regional Spain from the Pre-Modern Period to the Present
María A. Castrillo Romón, Marina Jiménez Jiménez, Miguel Fernández-Maroto and Juan Luis de las Rivas Sanz
6. Small towns in Latin America: transformations during the 18th and 19th centuries
Mariana Canedo
7. Small towns or small cities: the non-metropolitan United States, 1820-2020
Carl Abbott
8. The rise and fall of small towns in Sweden, 1800-2020
Lars Nilsson
9. Small towns and cultural identity: heritage, regionalism and beyond in the Czech Lands, c. 1900-1950
Jaroslav Ira
10. Global connectivity and small towns in the Central African urban network during the Colonial Period before the Second World War
Johan Lagae
11. The changing importance of small towns: Malaya in the Modern Era
Lynn Hollen Lees
12. Smaller frontier cities of Jordan: Unveiling historical dynamics and paths to sustainable development in the Middle East from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period
Janset Shawash
13. Greek small island towns in transition: 19th to 21st century
Katerina Chatzikonstantinou and Lydia Sapounaki-Dracaki
Indexes
- Edited by Peter Clark
Other Titles in this Series
Le chatiment des villes dans les espaces mediterraneens (Antiquite, Moyen Age, Epoque moderne)
Volume 26
De Bono Communi
The Discourse and Practice of the Common Good in the European City (13th-16th c.) / Discours et pratique du Bien Commun dans les villes d'Europe (XIIIe au XVIe siecle)
Volume 22
Le pouvoir en ville
Gestion urbaine et pratiques politiques a Geneve (fin XIIIe - debut XVIe siecles)
Volume 25
The Rise of Cities Revisited
Reflections on Adriaan Verhulst's Vision of Urban Genesis and Developments in the Medieval Low Countries
Volume 61
Technologies of Learning
Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Regime
Volume 11
Woven into the Urban Fabric
Cloth Manufacture and Economic Development in the Flemish West-Quarter (1300-1600)
Volume 54
Emotions in the Heart of the City (14th-16th century) / Les emotions au coeur de la ville (XIVe-XVIe siecle)
Les emotions au coeur de la ville (XIVe-XVIe siecle)
Volume 5
Urban Elites and Aristocratic Behaviour in the Spanish Kingdoms at the End of the Middle Ages
Volume 27
Des amities ciblees
Concours de tir et diplomatie urbaine dans le Saint-Empire, XVe-XVIe siecle
Volume 51
The Power of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The cities of Italy, Northern France and the Low Countries
Volume 30
The city, the duke and their banker
The Rapondi family and the formation of the Burgundian state (1384-1430)
Volume 7
Usuriers publics et banquiers du Prince
Le role economique des financiers piemontais dans les villes du duche de Brabant (XIIIe-XIVe siecle)
Volume 28
Sixteenth-century Antwerp and its Rural Surroundings
Social and Economic Changes in the Hinterland of a Commercial Metropolis (ca. 1450 - ca. 1570)
Volume 14
Subaltern City?
Alternative and Peripheral Urban Spaces in the Pre-modern Period (13th-18th Centuries)
Volume 46
Epitomes of Evil
Representations of Executioners in Northern France and the Low Countries in the Late Middle Ages
Volume 8
La police de Bruxelles entre reformes et revolutions (1748-1814)
Police urbaine et modernite
Volume 29
Message in a Bottle
Merchants' letters, merchants' marks and conflict management in 1533-34. A source edition
Volume 57
For the Common Good
State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477-1482
Volume 17
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