Capital cities and their hinterlands in early modern Europe
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Capital cities and their hinterlands in early modern Europe
（Historical urban studies / series editors, Richard Rodger and Jean-Luc Pinol）
Scolar Press , Ashgate Pub., c1996
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Metropolitan cities and their hinterlands in early modern Europe
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Revision of papers originally presented at a session on Metropolitan cities and their hinterlands, held Leuven, Belgium, summer 1990, during the International Economic History Congress.; earlier versions of some of the papers were published in Metropolitan cities and their hinterlands in early modern Europe (1990)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This work provides an amalysis of European capital cities and their impact in the early modern period. Capital cities were dynamic and influential, accounting for more than a third of all European city growth during the 16th and 17th centuries. Some were ancient cities, like Paris and London; a number were new expressions of royal power, such as Madrid and Berlin; other were colonial cities, offshoots of state empires, like Dublin or Naples. Almost all shared rapid population growth, high levels of mortality and heavy immigration. Economically they were boosted by the growth of the Court and state bureaucracies, the influx of great landowners, and the multiplication of luxury industries and service trades. They become powerful transmitters of international cultural values and fashions, whether in dress, speech, architecture, material goods or leisure. They played a vital role in the transformation of early modern society, and their impact on regional, national and overseas hinterlands was immense, influencing demographic, economic and social structures and development.
The book comprises ten chapters written by leading European and American urban historians, and combines a general consideration of the role of these cities with a series of case studies. Though the main focus is central and western Europe, the collection also examines the growth of state capitals in European empires outside Europe, including Latin America.
Table of Contents
- Urban systems and economic growth - town populations in metropolitan hinterlands 1600-1850, Paul Hohenburg and Lynn Hollen Lees
- London and its hinterland 1600-1800 - the view from the provinces, Michael Reed
- Dublin 1600-1700 - a city and its hinterland, Raymond Gillespie
- Paris - first metropolis of the early modern period, Jean Jacquart
- a capital city in the feudal order - Madrid from the 16th to the 18th century, Jose Miguel Lopez Garcia and Santos Madrazo Madrazo
- Naples - capital of the enlightenment, Brigitte Marin
- the metropolis from the sand box - Berlin and Brandenburg, Helga Schultz
- Budapest and its hinterland - the development of twin cities 1720-1850, Vera Bacskal
- between capital, residential town and metropolis - the development of Warsaw in the 16th to 18th centuries, Maria Bogucka
- capital cities and their hinterlands - Europe and the colonial dimension, David R Rindrose.
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