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The preindustrial city

by Gideon Sjoberg

1965 353 pages

This is an influential book about the emergence of urban areas before the advent of industrialization. Dr. Sjoberg describes the developments that contributed to the concentration of human populations in relatively small areas that were geographically removed from the fields in which food was pr…

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