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1540–1840

Series The Cambridge Urban History of Britain,
Volume 2

Edited by Peter
Clark

Publication Date 2000

Hardback ISBN-10 0521431417

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521431415

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521431415

Overview

The second volume of The Cambridge Urban History examines when, why, and how
Britain became the first modern urban nation - the wonder of the Western world.
The contributors offer a detailed analysis of the evolution of national and
regional urban networks in England, Scotland and Wales and assess the growth of
all the main types of towns - from the rising imperial metropolis of London to
the great provincial cities, country and market towns, and the new-style leisure
and industrialising towns. They discuss problems of urban mortality and
migration, the social organisation of towns, the growth of industry and the
service sector, civic governance, and the rise of religious and cultural
pluralism. This is the first ever comprehensive study of British towns and
cities in the early modern period, the culmination of a generation of research
on perhaps the most important social and geographical change in British
history.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see 1540–1840 in the Cambridge
University Press online catalogue.

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The
Cambridge Urban History of Britain Vol. 2: 1540–1840

Frontmatter

Introduction
by Peter
Clark

Area
surveys 1540–1840

Urban
themes and types 1540–1700

Urban
themes and types 1700–1840

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