Download or read book Urban Societies in East-Central Europe written by Jaroslav Miller and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at urban development in East-Central Europe from the middle ages to the early modern period. Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and to a lesser degree with parts of Austria and Germany, this book provides an insight into a number of key issues concerning the economic, social and demographic trends in early modern East-Central European urban history. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, it examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state building and economic change on the transformation of medieval urban communities into early modern societies.