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

edited by Peter Borsay and L 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. 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 the historiographical 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). Review: ... the book provides much food for thought, and the comparative framework has much to commend it. Scholarly readers will find it a useful addition to the growing literature on the early modern town. H-NET Book Review ... a useful comparative framework for understanding urban life and culture on either side of the Irish Sea. H-NET Book Review ... adds to the growing literature, providing a rare comparative perspective. H-NET Book Review ... valuable for its interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Northern History ... this collection is a great success. Its constituent parts mesh together well, and the result is a readable and informative collection ... All the contributors, and the editors, are to be congratulated for a job well done. Eighteenth-Century Ireland Contents: The English and Irish Urban Experiences, 1500-1800: Change, Convergence, and Divergence; From Frontier Town to Renaissance City: Kilkenny 1500-1700; Small Towns in England, 1600-1800; Markets, Fairs and Towns in Ireland, ca 1600-1853; The Creation and Evolution of Small Towns in Ulster in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Change and Continuity in an Irish County Town in the Early Modern Period: Kells, 1600-1820; A County Town in Transition: the Great Fire of Warwick 1694; County, Town and Country: Three Histories of Urban Development in Eighteenth-century Chester; The Cultures of Eighteenth-century Irish Towns; Provincial Culture and Urban Histories in England and Ireland during the Long Eighteenth Century; The Significance of the Villages and Small Towns in Rural Ireland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 296p. (Proceedings of the British Academy 108, 2002)

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