Small Towns and Cities in World History
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Edited by Peter Clark
Hardback (Published)
(June 2026)
ISBN: 9782503610016
7.01 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
Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris
The Parisian Bourgeois and his Community, 1400-1450
Volume 60
Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective
The Low Countries and Neighbouring German Territories (14th-17th centuries)
Volume 36
Innovation and Medieval Communities
The Circulation of Ideas and Practices in and out of the Town (1200-1500)
Volume 63
Les identites urbaines au Moyen Age. Regards sur les villes du Midi francais
Actes du colloque de Montpellier 8-9 decembre 2011
Volume 32
Sociabilite urbaine et criminalisation etatique
La justice namuroise face a la violence de 1360 a 1555
Volume 39
The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels
Drama, Ceremony, and Art Patronage (16th-17th Centuries)
Volume 37
Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries
Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries
Volume 34
Governments of the Universitates
Urban Communities of Sicily in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Volume 21
Earning Dignity
Labour Conditions and Relations during the Century of the Black Death in Marseille
Volume 38
Councils, Conflicts, Correspondence
Urban Diplomacy in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck (c. 1470–1570)
Volume 67
Des villes en revolte
Les republiques urbaines aux Pays-Bas et en France pendant la deuxieme moitie du XVIe siecle
Volume 23
Urban Hierarchy
The Interaction between Towns and Cities in Europe in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times
Volume 53
Gouverner la ville au bas Moyen Age
Les elites dirigeantes de la ville de Namur au XVe siecle
Volume 16
La Justice dans une ville du Nord du Royaume de France au Moyen Age
Etude sur la pratique judiciaire a Saint-Quentin (fin XIe-debut XVe siecle)
Volume 24
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