Urbanism in the preindustrial world
Subtitle: cross-cultural approaches
By: edited by Glenn R. Storey.
Contributors: Storey, Glenn Reed, 1955-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780817314767; 9780817352462
Subjects: Cities and towns -- History.; Urbanization -- History.; Rural-urban migration -- History.; Population -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Originated as an Archaeology Division session for the 95th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia, December 1998"--Ack.
Table of contents: title: The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC / Ian Morris; title: Did the population of imperial Rome reproduce itself? / Elio Lo Cascio; title: Epidemics, age at death, and mortality in ancient Rome / Richard R. Paine and Glenn R. Storey; title: Seasonal mortality in imperial Rome and the Mediterranean : three problem cases / Brent D. Shaw; title: Population relationships in and around medieval Danish towns / Hans Christian Petersen, Jesper L. Boldsen, and Richard R. Paine; title: Colonial and postcolonial New York : issues of size, scale, and structure / Nan A. Rothschild; title: An urban population from Roman Upper Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall; title: Precolonial African cities : size and density / Chapurukha Kusimba, Sibel Barut Kusimba, and Babatunde Agbaje-Williams; title: Urbanization in China : Erlitou and its hinterland / Li Liu; title: Population growth and change in the ancient city of Kyongju / Sarah M. Nelson; title: Population dynamics and urbanism in premodern island Southeast Asia / Laura Lee Junker; title: Identifying Tiwanaku urban populations : style, identity, and ceremony in Andean cities / John Wayne Janusek and Deborah E. Blom; title: Late classic Maya population : characteristics and implications / Don S. Rice; title: Mortality through time in an impoverished residence of the Precolumbian city of Teotihuacan : a paleodemographic view / Rebecca Storey; title: The evolution of regional demography and settlement in the prehispanic Basin of Mexico / L.J. Gorenflo; title: Factoring the countryside into urban populations / David B. Small; title: Shining stars and black holes : population and preindustrial cities / Deborah L. Nichols.