Decline and Growth in English Towns 14001640

Decline and Growth in English Towns 14001640 by Alan Dyer

Although historians have always studied towns, widespread interest in urban history as a specialised historical field is relatively recent. This fashion has stimulated the development of a major controversy about the fortunes of towns in England between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some see them as prone to crisis and frequently subject to decay, while others have held that many of them prospered in these centuries. This book guides the reader through the controversy, summarises the opposing arguments, and adds new insights derived from the author's own research. Alan Dyer argues that the problem lay in the rise and decline of regional economies rather than the rise and decline of the towns which lay in those regions. An extensive bibliography with notes helps the reader to come to his or her own conclusions.

"..worthwhile text..." The Sixteenth Century Journal

Dyer, Alan: - Alan Dyer, one of Canada's foremost experts on astronomy, is the resident astronomer at the TELUS World of Science in Calgary, Alberta. He is also the author of INSIDERS: SPACE, published in 2007. Asteroid #78434 is named after him.

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ISBN 13	9780521557818
ISBN 10	052155781X
Title	Decline and Growth in English Towns 14001640
Author	Alan Dyer
Series	New Studies In Economic And Social History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1995-09-14
Number of pages	92
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