Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640
What was the state of English towns between 1400 and 1640? It was once accepted that they were generally in decline or suffering serious problems of poverty and economic crisis. This generalization has been strongly challenged, and this book guides the reader through the controversy, summarizes the opposing cases, and attempts a reasoned compromise involving new information from the author's own research. An extensive bibliography with notes helps the reader to come to his or her own conclusions. This is a book for both students beginning the study of the subject and for their teachers.
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Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640
What was the state of English towns between 1400 and 1640? It was once accepted that they were generally in decline or suffering serious problems of poverty and economic crisis. This generalization has been strongly challenged, and this book guides the reader through the controversy, summarizes the opposing cases, and attempts a reasoned compromise involving new information from the author's own research. An extensive bibliography with notes helps the reader to come to his or her own conclusions. This is a book for both students beginning the study of the subject and for their teachers.
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Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640

Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640

by Alan Dyer
Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640

Decline and Growth in English Towns 1400-1640

by Alan Dyer

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What was the state of English towns between 1400 and 1640? It was once accepted that they were generally in decline or suffering serious problems of poverty and economic crisis. This generalization has been strongly challenged, and this book guides the reader through the controversy, summarizes the opposing cases, and attempts a reasoned compromise involving new information from the author's own research. An extensive bibliography with notes helps the reader to come to his or her own conclusions. This is a book for both students beginning the study of the subject and for their teachers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521552721
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/14/1995
Series: New Studies in Economic and Social History , #13
Edition description: 1st Cambridge University Press ed
Pages: 90
Product dimensions: 5.55(w) x 8.82(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

List of maps; Note on references; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. The background to the controversy; 3. Urban fortunes before 1450; 4. Urban crisis at the end of the middle ages; 5. The problems of evidence; 6. Expansion and decline 1540–1640; 7. Conclusion; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Index.
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