Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction
Part I c. 400-c1500
2: Urban Trends
3: Economy
4: Social Life
5: Culture and Landscape
6: Governance
Part II c. 1500-1800
7: Urban Trends
8: Economy
9: Social Life
10: Culture and Landscape
11: Governance
Part III c. 1800-2000
12: Urban Trends
13: Economy
14: Social Life
15: Culture and Landscape
16: Governance
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About the Author

Peter Clark is Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki. Educated at Oxford, he was previously professor at the University of Leicester, where he was Director of the Centre for Urban History. In 1989 he helped found the European Association for Urban History.

Reviews

`A fine synthesis - a tour de force - that embodies a hugely impressive range of knowledge and understanding about towns, and deserves to have the widest readership
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Professor Peter Borsay, University of Aberystwyth