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
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Sixteenth-century Antwerp and its Rural Surroundings
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Subaltern City?
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Epitomes of Evil
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La police de Bruxelles entre reformes et revolutions (1748-1814)
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Message in a Bottle
Merchants' letters, merchants' marks and conflict management in 1533-34. A source edition
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For the Common Good
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Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris
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Volume 3
Economies, Public Finances, and the Impact of Institutional Changes in Interregional Perspective
The Low Countries and Neighbouring German Territories (14th-17th centuries)
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Innovation and Medieval Communities
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Les identites urbaines au Moyen Age. Regards sur les villes du Midi francais
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The Seven Sorrows Confraternity of Brussels
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Moving Pictures. Intra-European Trade in Images, 16th-18th Centuries
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