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The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants
lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of
mankind's greatest collective achievements over time and raises
many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in
the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the
contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the
roller-coaster of urban change over the millennia - market forces
such as trade and industry? rulers and governments? competition and
collaboration between cities? or the urban environment and
demographic forces? This pioneering comparative work by fifty
leading scholars drawn from a range of disciplines offers the first
detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times
to the present day.
The Handbook explores not only the main trends in the growth of
cities and towns across the world - in Asia and the Middle East,
Europe, Africa, and the Americas - and the different types of
cities from great metropolitan centres to suburbs, colonial cities,
and market towns, but also many of the essential themes in the
making and remaking of the urban world: the role of power, economic
development, migration, social inequality, environmental challenge
and the urban response, religion and representation, cinema, and
urban creativity. Split into three parts covering Ancient cities,
the medieval and early modern period, and the modern and
contemporary era, it begins with an introduction by the editor
identifying the importance and challenges of research on cities in
world history as well as the crucial outlines of urban development
since the earliest cities in ancient Mesopotamia to the present.
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