Comparative urban history examines early modern economic and cultural achievements in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London.

Using Scotland as an exemplar, the author explores the relationship between geographical knowledge and national identity.

This 1997 book is a standard reference to the 1910 'New Domesday' data; essential for historians of Edwardian Britain.

How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, and the relationships ...

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The essays in this collection reflect the increasing use of social science concepts within the field of historical geography.

By the outbreak of the First World War, England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to ...