Rome * Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Rome * Amsterdam: Tubo Grouting Cities in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Edited hy Peter van Kessel and Elisja Schulte. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Distributed by the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 1997. Pp. xxiv, 333. 554.50.)

Rome * Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth Century Europe is a fascinating, wide-ranging. and ambitious collection of essays on two of the most important and complex locales of early modern Europe. Conceived as a series of thematic explorations of urban history, the editors have assembled an impressive list of international scholars to explore such disparate topics as: urban design, population, family, religion, and the treatment of Jews. As with any such collection, the contributions are of uneven quality and depth, but the book should provide a valuable resource for students and instructors of early modern Europe.

One of the most...