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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Walls Go Up (900–1325)
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Front Matter
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The Walls Move Outward (1325–1600)
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Front Matter
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The Walls Come Down (1600–1750)
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'Wolfe produces a masterful synthesis of historical literature on town fortifications linking urban, military, and political history while developing a novel interpretive framework assessing French state-building from the perspective of walls: their construction, maintenance, and eventual destruction, and the contests to control these processes. Wolfe's book should be read by all French historians as well as scholars of urban, military, and architectural history. Superb.' American Historical Review
"This book covers much new ground in relating the history of France's town-walls and fortifications to the general history of the country. It is based on a formidable reading of the scattered sources, and will lead many readers to material that they had not known." - David Buisseret, formerly Garrett Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Walled Towns and the Shaping of France
Book Subtitle: From the Medieval to the Early Modern Era
Authors: Michael Wolfe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101128
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10112-8Published: 31 August 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 266
Topics: History of France, European History, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History