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May 27, 2024 · Although the centre of the city, the Burgplatz, is on the site of the Frankish court and a later foundation (1253) of the Knights of the Teutonic Order, there are few traces of Duisburg’s preindustrial past.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 31, 2019 · Let’s take a look at how they found their place in the design of a sampling of important cities, from antiquity to the 19th century. In the 19th century, when industrialization came to cities ...
Duisburg is a city in Germany's Rhineland, the fifth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen) in the nation's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Its 500,000 inhabitants make it Germany's 15th-largest city.
Statistics on urban slave populations are taken from Nash, Urban Crucible, passim, and, for Charlseton, from Evarts B. Greene and Virginia S. Harrington, American Population Before the Census of 1790 (New York, 1932), 178.
- Gary B. Nash
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Duisburg, Germany . Prior to 20th century. 12thC. - Attained the rank of an imperial free town. [1] 1290 - Duisburg becomes part of Cleves. [1] 1361 - Town Hall first mentioned. [2] 1407 - Admitted into the Hanseatic League. [3]
Oct 4, 2010 · Introduction -- Cities: their beginnings -- The patterning of preindustrial-urban proliferation -- Demography and ecology -- Social class -- Marriage and the family -- Economic structure -- Political structure -- Religious structure -- Communication, education, and the nature of knowledge -- A backward glance: a forward look.
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In this entry, I am revisiting my book The Preindustrial City (1960). I elaborate upon, and, in the process, clarify, the modes of reasoning employed when documenting the existence of the preindustrial city.
