Small Towns in Early Modern Europe (Themes in International Urban History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521893749
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; History; History - General History; Europe; Europe - General; Cities and towns--Europe--History; History / Europe / General
First sentence: Throughout the medieval and early modern period the small town, with a few hundred or thousand people, often clustered behind stone or earthen ramparts, with farms and orchards in its midst, and a handful of public buildings around the marketplace, was a constant and quintessential feature of the European landscape.