The Pre-industrial Urban System
France 1740–1840
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Part of Themes in International Urban History
- Author: Bernard Lepetit, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- Translator: Godfrey Rogers
- Date Published: December 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521035057
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This is a landmark publication in the urban study of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which appears here for the first time in English. Highly acclaimed in the original French edition, it provides a synoptic view of the evolution of the French urban system before the Industrial Revolution by examining not only the major cities but the wider urban hierarchy. The innovations of this study lie in Lepetit's methodology: his use of models of urban interaction and the unravelling of the complex spatial dimensions to urbanization. He also sets up a detailed analysis of French urbanization and regionalism, and the different aspects of urban society: finance, building, trade, images and innovation. Lepetit's ideas will be of major interest to scholars of urbanization and the industrial revolution in Europe.
Read more- A synoptic view of the history of French urbanization
- Author is one of the leading urban historians and editor of the major French journal Annales
- The first English translation of major work of French historical scholarship
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- Date Published: December 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521035057
- length: 504 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.751kg
- contains: 25 b/w illus. 25 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The urbanisation of France
2. Urban images
3. The town, the economy, the territory
4. An essay in urban typology
5. Hierarchical gradations
6. The new geography of power
7. The France of the chefs-lieux
8. Towns and roads
9. Urban systems: from frameworks to networks
10. Back to representations
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.
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