By Peter Clark
The second one quantity of The Cambridge city historical past is the 1st entire examine of British cities and towns within the early glossy interval, and examines while, why, and the way Britain turned the 1st sleek city kingdom. The members provide a close research of the evolution of nationwide and local city networks, and investigate the expansion of all of the major different types of cities. They speak about difficulties of city mortality and migration, social association, commercial progress and the provider area, civic governance, and the increase of spiritual and cultural pluralism.
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With the diminished role of the central government after 1688, towns lobbied hard in Parliament for tariff privileges and improvement powers. However, economic expansion opened a chocolate box of other options. Increasingly competition was ameliorated by the advent of urban specialisation, as towns, first in England and later elsewhere, developed, more or less deliberately, specific leisure, transport, marketing or manufacturing functions (sometimes more than one) honed to particular sectors of demand.
13 Peter Clark and identity. 42 Fierce competition between towns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was frequently aggravated by their close proximity to one another, by the relentless growth of London and by the process of commercial integration. In response, civic elites sought to win commercial or other privileges which disadvantaged their rivals, to curry the favour of county landowners and to poach leading businessmen. The importance of great merchants or the like in the large cities ‒ contributing to infrastructure, commercial development or charities, helping such communities to ride out the pressures of urban change ‒ is well reported.
M. Stoyle, From Deliverance to Destruction (Exeter, 1996), esp. chs. 3‒6; M. Bennett, ‘“My plundered towns, my houses devastation”: the Civil War and North Midlands life 1642‒1646’, Midland History, 22 (1997), 35‒48; I. Roy, ‘ England turned Germany? The aftermath of the Civil War in its European context’, TRHS, 5th series, 28 (1978), 132‒44. See also B. Coates, ‘The impact of the English Civil War on the economy of London 1642‒1650’ (PhD thesis, University of Leicester, 1997). See below, pp. 254‒62; G.