European Urbanization, 1500-1800

by Jan de Vries

Book Overview

In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic and geographic models, Professor de Vries illustrates the patterns of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415848563
• ISBN13: 9780415848565
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"