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Towns in societies : essays in economic history and historical sociology
- Title
- Towns in societies : essays in economic history and historical sociology / edited by Philip Abrams, E.A. Wrigley.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- viii, 344 pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- 'Past and present' publications
- Uniform Title
- Past and present publications
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 311-340.
- Contents
- Towns and economic growth: some theories and problems / Philip Abrams -- Economic growth and towns in classical antiquity / Keith Hopkins -- Chinese cities since the Sung Dynasty / Mark Elvin -- The origins of the medieval town patriciate / A.B. Hibbert -- Urban growth and family structure in medieval Genoa / Diane Owen Hughes -- The distribution of wealth in a renaissance community: Florence / David Herlihy -- Urban decay in late medieval England / Charles Phythian-Adams -- Capitalism, mobility and class formation in the early modern German city / Christopher R. Friedrichs -- A simple model of London's importance in changing English society and economy 1650-1750 / E.A. Wrigley -- Towns and economic growth in eighteenth-century England / M.J. Daunton -- Aspects of urbanization and economic development in Germany 1815-1914 / J.J. Lee -- Parasite or stimulus: the town in a pre-industrial economy / E.A. Wrigley.
- ISBN
- 0521218268
- 9780521218269
- 0521295947
- 9780521295949
- LCCN
- 77082481
- OCLC
- ocm03205090
- 3205090
- SCSB-109096
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library