Overview
- Highlights the crucial role of urban networks in understanding the socioeconomic, geopolitical and spatial dynamics of European history from 1500 to 1900
- Tests theories on the relationship between urban networks and economic activity by comparing historical cases
- Focuses on the historical development of transport and distribution in connection with the development of urban networks
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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A Single Gateway
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Changing Shapes of Urban Networks
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The Making of a Regional Network
Keywords
- Urban logistic network
- Urban economics
- Transport economics
- Maritime economics
- Economic history of urban networks
- Environmental dynamics of networks
- Sustainability of goods distribution
- Economics of goods services
- Economic geography of urban networks
- Historical economic geography
- Transport and distribution
- History of transport networks
- Economic corridors
- Belfast-Dublin railway corridor
- Historical geography
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giovanni Favero is Professor of Economic History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, in the Department of Management. In 2018-19 he was the Thomas K. McCraw Visiting Fellow in US Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on organisational history in a long term perspective.
Michael-W. Serruys is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Fellow at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France. In recent years his main focus lay on 18th century Belgian economic, maritime and transport history. As a MSCA Fellow he now researches the societal effects of environmental crisis, like the shipworm epidemic in 18th century Western Europe.
Miki Sugiura is Professor of Global Economic History at the Faculty of Economics of Hosei University, Japan. Currently (2018-2020) she is Visiting Professor of Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include historyof distribution and trade organizations, urban formation and women’s property formation. She also has published recently multiple articles and books on circulations and recycling of textile products.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Urban Logistic Network
Book Subtitle: Cities, Transport and Distribution in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
Editors: Giovanni Favero, Michael-W. Serruys, Miki Sugiura
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27599-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27598-3Published: 02 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27601-0Published: 31 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27599-0Published: 20 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Economic Geography, Historical Geography, Urban Economics, Maritime Economics