A survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War.

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and

This text explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society - the transition from rural to urban ways of living. It covers a range of

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collec