European Urbanization: 1500-1800

By Jan de Vries

Book Overview

This book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analyzed at fifty year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic, and geographical models, de Vries illustrates patterns of urban growth, draws conclusions about the significance of migratory behavior, and shows the effects of urbanization on the history of Europe as a whole.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674270150
• ISBN13: 9780674270152
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"