@article{439061,
      author = {Wolfe, Michael.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/439061},
      title = {Walled towns and the shaping of France from the medieval  to the early modern era / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {This book focuses on the ways in which military  technology, political and social trends, and shifting  frontiers shaped the emergence of new forms of public  authority and civic life as embodied in the "wall," an  image at once intensely physical and deeply symbolic. It  traces the evolution of towns across much of what is today  France from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century when  the walls began to come down, opening up new, ultimately  revolutionary possibilities for urban life. This long-term  perspective on town fortifications - how they were built,  the contests to control them, and how they shaped the lives  of people both inside and outside them - in the end tell us  much about the making of France.},
      recid = {439061},
      pages = {1 online resource (vi, 266 p.) :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2009},
}