Surat in the Seventeenth Century: A Study in Urban History of Pre-Modern India. By Balkrishna Govind Gokhale. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, no. 28), 1979. v, 222 Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12. (Distributed in U.S. by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.)

1981 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-821
Author(s):  
M. N. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Monograph Series ◽  
History Of

India: History—Pre-Modern and Modern India: Balakrjshna Govind Gokhale: Surat in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of Urban History of Prc-Modern India. Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1979, 222p., Rs. 100.

1982 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-238
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban History ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
British Policy ◽  
History Of

INDIA: History—Pre-Modern and Modern India: BALAKRISHNA GOVIND GOKHALE: Surat in the Seventeenth Century : A Study of Urban History of Pre-Modern India. PARSHOTAM MEHRA: The North-Eastern Frontier: A Documentary Study of the Internecine Rivalry Between India, Tibet and China. MANI LAL BOSE: British Policy in the North-East Frontier Agency.

But Are We Any Closer to Home?: Early Modern German Urban History SinceGerman Home Towns

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Friedrichs
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
German History ◽  
Home Town ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Cities

For a quarter of a century we have lived not in but with the “German home town.” For it was in 1971 that Mack Walker published his remarkable book,German Home Towns: Community, State and General Estate, 1648–1871. I well recall my own excitement when I first read this book, just as I was completing a dissertation on the social history of a German town in the seventeenth century. Not only wasGerman Home Townsoriginal and provocative, but it seemed by its very nature to validate the importance of studying early modern German cities. My own enthusiasm for this book has been echoedby that of numerous other historians, especially historians outside Germany itself. This is evident, for example, in James Sheehan's major survey of German history from 1770 to 1866, which repeatedly turns to Mack Walker—“the home towns' eloquent historian”—for the telling phrase or pregnant concept that best encapsulates some aspect of urban life or mentality. Walker's book is routinely cited in bibliographies as one of the most important works in the field.

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