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This impressive survey of the early modern city from 1450 to 1750 launches the new History of Urban Society in Europe series in fine style. Christopher Friedrichs' uniquely comprehensive overview is the first attempt to cover the urban society of early modern Europe as a unified whole. He challenges the usual emphasis on regional and national diversity, stressing instead the extent to which cities all over Europe shared a common urban civilization whose major features remained remarkably constant across the three centuries of the early modern era. After a general introduction, the five chapters of Part One (The City in Context) outline in turn the physical, political, religious, economic and demographic parameters of urban life in early modern Europe. The four chapters of Part Two (The City as a Social Arena) then examine the full range of social groups in the early modern city, from the exalted milieu of merchants and patricians, through the solid core of householding families, to the desperate netherworld of paupers, criminals and prostitutes. In the three chapters of Part Three (The City in Calm and Crisis) Professor Friedrichs describes the everyday rhythms of activity in the e

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Author

Christopher R. Friedrichs

Publisher

Harlow, England : Pearson Education

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317901846

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science