Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland: Change, Convergence and DivergencePeter Borsay, Lindsay J. Proudfoot Between 1500 and 1800 the development of England and Ireland became closely intertwined, and the urban systems of both countries underwent changes of great long-term significance. This volume brings together historians and geographers from both Britain and Ireland to examine the common themes affecting provincial towns. |
Contents
Figures | 10 |
Kilkenny 15001700 | 29 |
1 | 45 |
Small towns in England 16001800 | 53 |
Markets fairs and towns in Ireland c 16001853 | 69 |
1 | 74 |
5 | 81 |
1 | 89 |
1 | 153 |
Land bought to form The Square Warwick 1696 | 166 |
three histories of urban development in | 171 |
1 | 175 |
Location of executors and administrators named in probate records of Cestrians 170160 | 181 |
6 | 189 |
100 | 213 |
Provincial culture and urban histories in England and Ireland during the long | 223 |
The creation and evolution of small towns in Ulster in the seventeenth and | 97 |
2 | 100 |
75 | 117 |
Kells 16001820 | 121 |
1 | 123 |
3 | 131 |
5 | 138 |
8 | 144 |
the Great Fire of Warwick 1694 | 151 |
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