Town and Country in Pre-Industrial Spain - Cuenca, 1540-1870

Klappentext This 1990 study of a hilltop town on the Castilian Meseta analyses its socio-economic structures in the context of the urbanisation of rural Spain. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Towns in historical perspective; 2. Growth and decadence of a Castilian hill town; 3. Demographic dynamics in an urban context; 4. Economic fluctuations and demographic behaviour in urban Spain; 5. Dearth, death and epidemics: towns in times of crisis; 6. Household and family in Cuenca: a question of perspective; 7. Mobility and migration in pre-industrial Cuenca; 8. A culture of mobility; Appendix; List of references; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Reher, David Sven Reher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521201322
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20132-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Populatio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History