The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 - 1688: A Reader in English Urban History: Readers In English Urban History

Preface 1 Introduction 2 Urban development in England and Wales in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 3 English pre-industrial urban economies 4 Household size and structure in early-Stuart Cambridge 5 Social problems in Elizabethan London 6 Change and stability in seventeenth-century London 7 Residential patterns in pre-industrial cities: Some case studies from seventeenth-century Britain 8 Civic mentality and the environment in Tudor York 9 'The Ramoth-Gilead of the Good': Urban change and political radicalism at Gloucester 1540-1640 10 Newcastle and the nation: The seventeenth-century experience 11 The corporate town and the English State: Bristol's 'little businesses' 1625-1641

The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.