Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe

Juliane Czierpka, Kathrin Oerters, Nora Thorade (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-57099-7 (ISBN)

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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.

"Table of ContentsIntroduction

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 Boldorf4. Space and industry in the economic region Black Country; Juliane Czierpka5. 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 Thorade7. The concept of regional industrialization from the perspective of the economic history of East Central Europe; Uwe Müller8. Global markets and regional industrialization: the emergence of the saxon textile industry, 1790-1914; Michael Schäfer9. Industrialization and agriculture. The beet sugar industry in Saxony-Anhalt, 1799–1902; Dirk Schaal10. 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 Wyke12. The identity of mining engineers: a void in the memory of mining communities; Willemijne Linssen13. Similarities and discrepancies: The workers'' discourse in ''the Greater Region'' of Luxembourg and the French region of Lorraine; Laure Caregari14. Industrial heritage in the Ruhr Region and South Wales in historical comparison; Kathrin Oerters15. Zollverein and Sulzer: The Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Industrial Heritage Sites; Heike Oevermann and Harald A. Mieg

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik
Schlagworte	Economic History • Europe • Germany • History • Industrialisierung • social development • Zollverein
ISBN-10	1-349-57099-0 / 1349570990
ISBN-13	978-1-349-57099-7 / 9781349570997
Zustand	Neuware