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- Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Africa, United States, Denmark, and China. This broad sample provides a useful framework for answers to such questions as “Why did people agglomerate into cities?” and “What population size and what age of endurance constitute a city?”
The study covers more than population magnitude and population makeup, the two major frameworks of urban demography. The contributors combine their archaeological and historical expertise to reveal commonalities, as well as theoretical extrapolations and methodological approaches, at work here and outside the sample.
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World is a unique study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in preindustrial times.
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Africa, United States, Denmark, and China. This broad sample provides a useful framework for answers to such questions as “Why did people agglomerate into cities?” and “What population size and what age of endurance constitute a city?”
The study covers more than population magnitude and population makeup, the two major frameworks of urban demography. The contributors combine their archaeological and historical expertise to reveal commonalities, as well as theoretical extrapolations and methodological approaches, at work here and outside the sample.
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World is a unique study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in preindustrial times.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- THE WESTERN URBAN TRADITION
- URBAN SOCIETY ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
- FAR EASTERN URBANIZATION
- URBAN CENTERS OF THE NEW WORLD
- CROSS-CULTURAL SYNTHESIS
- References
- pp. 341-408
- Contributors
- pp. 409-414
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817380977
Related ISBN(s)
9780817314767, 9780817352462
MARC Record
OCLC
183298135
Pages
560
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006