Although historians have always studied towns, widespread interest
in urban history as a specialized historical field is relatively
recent. This fashion has stimulated the development of a major
controversy about the fortunes of towns in England between the 14th
and 17th 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, summarizes the opposing cases, and adds new
insights derived from the author's own research. These insights
indicate 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 is designed
to help the reader to come to his or her own conclusions. This is a
book both for students beginning the study of the subject and for
their teachers, to whom it should have something new to say.
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