Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland : change, convergence, and divergence / edited by Peter Borsay & Lindsay Proudfoot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borsay, Peter.

Proudfoot, L. J. (Lindsay J.)

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 108.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--England--History.

Cities and towns.

History.

England.

Cities and towns--Ireland--History.

Ireland.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

xvii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1. The English and Irish urban experience, 1500-1800: change, convergence and divergence / Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot

2. From frontier town to Renaissance city: Kilkenny, 1500-1700 / John Bradley

3. Small towns in England, 1600-1800 / Alan Dyer

4. Markets, fairs and towns in Ireland, c.1600-1853 / Lindsay Proudfoot

5. The creation and evolution of small towns in Ulster in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / W.H. Crawford

6. Change and continuity in an Irish country town: Kells, 1600-1820 / Anngret Simms

7. A county town in transition: the Great Fire of Warwick, 1694 / Peter Borsay

8. County, town and country: three histories of urban development in eighteenth-century Chester / Jon Stobart

9. The cultures of eighteenth-century Irish towns / Toby Barnard

10. Provincial culture and the urban histories in England and Ireland during the long eighteenth century / Rosemary Sweet

11. The significance of the villages and small towns in rural Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Susan Hood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0197262481

9780197262481

OCLC:

47984195

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