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Urbanism in the Preindustrial Worldby Glenn Storey; Rebecca Storey; Li Liu; Sarah M. Nelson; Glenn Storey; Roger S. Bagnall; Deborah E. Blom; Jesper L. Boldsen; Elio Lo Cascio; L. J. Gorenflo; Babatunde Agbaje Williams; Laura Lee Junker; Chapurukha Kusimba; Sibel Barut Kusimba; Ian Morris; Deborah L. Nichols; Hans Christian Petersen; Richard R. Paine; Don S. Rice; Nan A. Rothschild; Brent D. Shaw; David B. Small; John Wayne Janusek

A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide. This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population... more...