Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London

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, his coeditors and eighteen distinguished historians from Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain, and North America, have collaborated to compare economic, architectural, artistic, publishing and scientific achievements in three European cities during their golden ages: Antwerp (c. 1492-1585), Amsterdam (c. 1585-1659) and London (c. 1660-1730). This study offers fascinating insights to scholars and students of economic, social and cultural history.

Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/12/2001
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.28w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780521594080

About the Author
'T Hart, Marjolein: - 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.Wee, Herman Van Der: - BARON HERMAN VAN DER WEE is Emeritus Professor of Social and Economic History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

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