This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.

Tait's classic study explores the origins and growth of English towns, from their emergence as a response to the Dnish threat, to their later constitutional affairs and municipal governance, guilds and merchants.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.