Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland Change, Convergence and Divergence

by Borsay, Peter; Proudfoot, Lindsay

• ISBN13: 9780197262481
• ISBN10: 0197262481
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 themesaffecting provincial towns. The individual papers study economic growth, religious and cultural change, regionalization, landscape and planning, and the fate of different types of settlements (e.g. small towns, fair and market centres, county towns and regional capitals). A substantial introduction reviews thehistoriographical context of the subject, and discusses whether the trajectories of English and Irish urban development converged or diverged during the period. This volume complements Two Capitals: London and Dublin 1500-1840 (Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 107; ISBN: 0-19-726247-3).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
List of Abbreviations	xiv
Maps	xv
The English and Irish urban experience, 1500-1800: change, convergence and diveragence	1	(28)
Peter Borsay
Lindsay Produdfoot
Form frontier town to Renaissance city: Kilkenny, 1500-1700	29	(24)
John Bradley
Small towns in England, 1600-1800	53	(16)
Alan Dyer
Markets, fairs and towns in Ireland, c. 1600-1853	69	(28)
Lindsay Proudfoot
The creation and evolution of small towns in Ulster in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	97	(24)
W.H. Crawford
Change and continuity in an Irish country town: Kells, 1600-1820	121	(30)
Anngret Simms
A county town in transition: the Great Fire of Warwick, 1694	151	(20)
Peter Borsay
County, town and country: three histories of urban development in eighteenth-century Chester	171	(24)
Jon Stobart
The cultures of eighteenth-century Irish towns	195	(28)
Toby Barnard
Provincial culture and urban histories in England and Ireland during the long eighteenth century	223	(18)
Rosemary Sweet
The significance of the villages and small towns in rural Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	241	(22)
Susan Hood
Abstracts	263	(6)
Index	269