Urbanization in Eighteenth-Century France
A Comment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3499650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard Lepetit (0000-0001-9980-9210, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/205482 |
| OpenAlex | W2326422411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Urbanization in Eighteenth-Century France: A Comment Historians curious about the population of French cities in the last centuries of the ancien regime do not lack numbers. For the eighteenth century alone, over twenty different population figures can easily be lined up for Rouen or Paris, and nearly as many for Caen.1 However, abundance does not necessarily mean wealth. Even the closest critical analysis cannot eliminate all of the uncertainties that arise from the accumulation of
Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Urbanization · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2020 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |