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The Urban Logistic Network

Cities, Transport and Distribution in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

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Editors:
  1. Giovanni Favero

    1. Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

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  2. Michael-W. Serruys

    1. Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

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  3. Miki Sugiura

    1. Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Giovanni Favero, Michael-W. Serruys, Miki Sugiura
    Pages 1-20

  3. A Single Gateway

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Gateway of Gothenburg

      • Per Hallén
      Pages 23-49

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-253
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About this book

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world. In the past, gateway cities were merely perceived as transport points, only relevant to maritime shipping. Today they are seen as the organic entities coordinating the allocation of resources and supporting the growth, efficiency and sustainability of logistics (including both the transport and distribution of goods and services). Using different historical case studies, the authors consider how logistics shaped urban networks and were shaped by them.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Management, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

    Giovanni Favero

  • Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France

    Michael-W. Serruys

  • Faculty of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Miki Sugiura

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

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