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Do numbers count? Towns in early modern Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2005

NIA POWELL
NIA POWELL
Affiliation:
Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor, LL57 2DG
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Abstract

Although early modern Welsh towns were small by European standards, appearing to follow Clark's model for Europe's northern periphery of localized settlements not closely integrated within a wider urban hierarchy, Welsh towns showing greatest expansion were commercial outlets for specialist produce within the wider commercial matrix of southern Britain. Their smallness indicates a role within this wider, integrated network rather than constriction born of isolation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , May 2005 , pp. 46 - 67
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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