Urban Society in Early Modern Period - Intro
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- Created on: 24-05-18 17:10
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- Urban Society in Early Modern Period - Intro (according to Penny Roberts)
- Only 10-20% of early modern European population lived in towns
- Influence and importance of urban society was disproportionately great
- because towns were political, economic, administrative and cultural centres of their localities
- Exact number of town-dwellers is open to debate
- Reasons
- uncertainties of early modern statistics and regional difference
- on account of problems of definition which have exercised urban historians for decades
- Reasons
- One of the issues is degree to which urban centres overlapped with rural society and its activities
- extent of urbanisation differed between states and was dependent on number of factors
- Although urban population of Europe increased considerably between 1500 and 1800
- most of growth was concentrated in larger, regionally significant towns
- Thus, both expansion and stagnation were characteristic of period
- most of growth was concentrated in larger, regionally significant towns
- Urban society also experienced, accommodated and influenced social, economic and cultural change
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