Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe
Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London
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- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2008
Summary
This innovative work in comparative urban history explores why outstanding achievements in material and intellectual culture in early modern Europe tended to cluster in certain maritime cities. Patrick O’Brien and his co-editors have assembled a team of eighteen distinguished historians from Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and North America, who have collaborated to make detailed comparisons of economic, architectural, artistic, publishing and scientific achievements in three renowned mercantile and imperial cities during their golden ages: Antwerp (c. 1492–1585), Amsterdam (c. 1585–1659) and London (c. 1660–1730). The book examines growth and fluctuations in the fortunes of all three cities in the context of broader trends in the growing urbanization of Europe’s populations, cultures, societies and economies. The study is located in the histories of politics, warfare and culture in early modern Europe and offers fascinating insights to scholars and students of economic, social and cultural history.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521088879 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521088879 |
| Author: | Patrick O'Brien, Derek Keene, Marjolein 't Hart, Herman van der Wee |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 550g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
”…[an] useful and interesting book of essays that are, in their own right, uniformly knowledgeable, clearly written and eminently readable. There is a great deal here to admire and savor…” Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature “All of the essays are…useful to general audiences, as well as to specialists in the sub-field of early modern urban history.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History “…a superb overview of current work on early modern cultural history.” Christopher P. Heuer, Historians of Netherlandish Art “This is a good book where the individual chapters all manifest high quality scholarship and the overall realization is successful.” American Historical Review “This collection of essays presents some of the best current scholarship on each of the three cities during the early modern period, and is crucial reading for both specialists and for those interested in a comparative urban history in a more general sense.” Sixteenth Century Journal “…well thought-out and finely executed volume…this is an unusually rich and thought-provoking collection of essays, and will doubtless prove of interest to an exceptionally wide range of readers.” Renaissance Quarterly “This highly informative, well prepared, and coherent collection is recommended to all students of early modern business history. May it open up a new field of comparative golden-age studies.” Business History Review “[O’Brien] poses basic questions with refreshing openness, advances ideas but does not proscribe answers. His introduction is noteworthy for setting context and spinning ideas instead of merely summarizing papers…The authors of the fifteen essays are all experts who deliver important chapters.” Journal of Modern History
Patrick O'Brien
PATRICK O’BRIEN is Centennial Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Convenor of the Programme in Global History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
MARJOLEIN ’T HART is Lecturer in Social and Economic History at the University of Amsterdam.
DEREK KEENE is Director of the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He has published extensively on cities, metropolises and their hinterlands between the seventh and nineteenth centuries.
BARON HERMAN VAN DER WEE is Emeritus Professor of Social and Economic History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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