Development and location of industry in Danish provincial towns 1855–1882

Lind, Gunner

doi:10.1080/03585522.1979.10415653

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“…It is not surprising that such demographic mirrors have been consulted intensively, but not exclusively, in urban historical research in Scandinavia. Much use has also been made of such diverse sources as registers of births and deaths, parish catechical examination ledgers, probate inventories, taxation assessments and censuses of distribution (Lext, 1967;PitkŠnen, 1977;Markkanen, 1978;Lind, 1979;Baigent, 1988;Hoppe and Langton, 1992;Lilja, 1994). Conspicuous by their absence are town directories which have considerable potential and as yet have been overlooked as a result of the multitude of alternative high quality sources available.…”

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A sign of the times: scandinavian town directories as sources for urban historical geography

Coles

Shaw

1997

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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A sign of the times: Scandinavian town directories as sources for urban historical geography. Geogr. Ann., 79 B (2): 65-81.ABSTRACT. The position of town and trade directories as sources for the reconstruction of former urban geographies of Scandinavia is discussed. Scandinavian directories have a long history which, in the case of major urban centres, can be traced back to the eighteenth century. They contain valuable information with respect to the social, economic, political and demographic organization of modern Scandinavian urban environments through extensive listings of names and addresses. Despite the wealth of information contained therein, directories remain an underused and unresearched data source due mainly to their perceived incompatibility with the themes pursued by research in urban historical geography and the diversity of alternative high quality sources available. Admittedly, the use of directories is not without problems and an assessment of the accuracy, availability and reliability of directory information is presented in this paper. Nevertheless, to dismiss directories represents a serious oversight: the continued history, rapid rate of update and spatial ubiquity of publication across the region after the onset of industrialization make directories a powerful source for comparative urban historical geography research in Scandinavia. Moreover, directories are highly versatile data sources and represent powerful artefacts of modernity insofar as they function as mirrors of cultural change and consumption.

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A sign of the times: scandinavian town directories as sources for urban historical geography

Coles

Shaw

1997

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…Curiously, several studies dealing more directly than Hansen's and Hyldtoft's with the interrelations between towns are not used. 3 Mostly I am astonished that the author does not draw the standard surveys on urbanization in Denmark into the discussion (although they are quoted). This is hard to understand because the survey articles by Boje/Hyldtoft and Hyldtoft are founded widely on the same source material and theoretical and methodological framework as Wichmann Matthiesen's study.…”

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