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Hugh Kennedy

Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe

Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Keene, Derek (Hrsg.) / O'Brien, Patrick (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-521-59408-0
  • EAN: 9780521594080
  • Produktnummer: 9926086
  • Verlag: Cambridge University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 376 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.6 cm 729 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 729

Über den Autor


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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