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Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-33340-7 (ISBN)
CHF 74,85 inkl. MwSt
The industrial age has proved to be a formative period for Europe. Industrial heritage nowadays bears witness to the development that took place in differently structured regions. This volume presents different paths of industrial development and gives an overview of the concepts of regions, used among economic, social and cultural historians.

Juliane Czierpka is Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social History, Georg-August-University, Göttingen. She recently finished a project on the Black Country and the Borinage as economic regions during European industrialization. Kathrin Oerters is Cultural Manager for the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Goethe-Institute Moscow in Astrakhan, Russia. She is researching the Industrial Heritage of the Ruhr region and South Wales in comparison at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum. Nora Thorade is Research Assistant in the Department of History at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her research looks at the industrial development of small mining districts in Germany during the 19th century.

"Table of Contents

Introduction

 

1. Regions, industries and heritage. Perspectives on economy, society and culture in modern Western Europe; Juliane Czierpka, Kathrin Oerters, Nora Thorade
2. Regions revisited: the importance of the region in understanding the long term economic and social development of Europe; Patricia Hudson


Part I - Industrialization, Regionalization, and Spatiality: An Examination of Regions during Their Industrial Development

 

3. The Ulster linen triangle: an industrial cluster emerging from a proto-industrial region; Marcel Boldorf
4. Space and industry in the economic region Black Country; Juliane Czierpka
5. Early start and late breakthrough. The industrialization of the Minette Region in Lorraine and Luxembourg; Ralf Banken
6. Coal, transport, and industrial development. The impact of coal mining in Lower Silesia; Nora Thorade
7. The concept of regional industrialization from the perspective of theeconomic history of East Central Europe; Uwe Müller
8. Global markets and regional industrialization: the emergence of the saxon textile industry, 1790-1914; Michael Schäfer
9. Industrialization and agriculture. The beet sugar industry in Saxony-Anhalt, 1799–1902; Dirk Schaal
10. Beyond the leading regions: Agricultural modernization and rural industrialization in North-Western Germany; Dieter Ziegler

 

Part II - Industrial Heritage, Identities, and Regional Self-Perception: An Examination of Regions after Their Prime


11. Housing the workers: Re-visiting employer villages in mid-19th-century Europe; Tilman Frasch, Terry Wyke
12. The identity of mining engineers: a void in the memory of mining communities; Willemijne Linssen
13. Similarities and discrepancies: The workers'' discourse in ''the Greater Region'' of Luxembourg and the French region of Lorraine; Laure Caregari
14. Industrial heritage in the Ruhr Region and South Wales in historical comparison; Kathrin Oerters
15. Zollverein and Sulzer: The Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Industrial Heritage Sites; Heike Oevermann and Harald A. Mieg 
 

                                                                                             

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.7.2015
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 288 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-137-33340-5 / 1137333405
ISBN-13 978-1-137-33340-7 / 9781137333407
Zustand Neuware
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