Capacité d'attraction et hiérarchie des petites villes de Flandre maritime (fin XVIIIe, début XIXe siècle).
1988; Lille University of Science and Technology; Volume: 70; Issue: 279 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/rnord.1988.4412
ISSN2271-7005
Autores ResumoThe study of immigration in the smaller cities of maritime Flanders in the late XVIIIth and early XlXth centuries enables us to understand how important demographic attractivity is as a criterion for defining an urban hierarchy. In Bergues, Bourbourg, Gravelines and Hondschoote, population mobility remains always quite significant : one can even note cases when one citizen out of two marrying in a small city is not a native. But that immigration remains also quite selective : the newcomers are relatively educated and need not belong to the poorest rural classes. Finally every one of those cities possesses its own levying basin. Nevertheless, as can be seen through the immigrants' varying importance, nature and geographical origins, one can make out notable differences between these cities. Behind their apparent unity, the belong in fact to three very clearcut types identified within the framework of the small scale urban units of northern France.
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