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Despite the great wave of publications on European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period, little has been written about the thousands of small towns whi

Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century travel writing. Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' th

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland wa

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Angloph