Regions, Industries, and Heritage : Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Regions, Industries, and Heritage: Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe....Pages 3-10
Regions Revisited: The Importance of the Region in Understanding the Long-Term Economic and Social Development of Europe....Pages 11-22
Front Matter....Pages 25-41
The Ulster Linen Triangle: An Industrial Cluster Emerging from a Proto-Industrial Region....Pages 25-41
Space and Industry in the Economic Region Black Country....Pages 42-53
Early Start and Late Breakthrough: The Industrialization of the Minette Region in Lorraine and Luxembourg....Pages 54-72
Coal, Transport, and Industrial Development: The Impact of Coal Mining in Lower Silesia....Pages 73-89
The Concept of Regional Industrialization from the Perspective of the Economic History of East Central Europe....Pages 90-115
Global Markets and Regional Industrialization: The Emergence of the Saxon Textile Industry, 1790–1914....Pages 116-135
Industrialization and Agriculture: The Beet Sugar Industry in Saxony-Anhalt, 1799–1902....Pages 136-147
Beyond the Leading Regions: Agricultural Modernization and Rural Industrialization in North-Western Germany....Pages 148-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Housing the Workers: Re-visiting Employer Villages in Mid-19th-century Europe....Pages 173-197
The Identity of Mining Engineers: A Void in the Memory of Mining Communities....Pages 198-216
Similarities and Discrepancies: The Workers’ Discourse in ‘the Greater Region’ of Luxembourg and the French Region of Lorraine....Pages 217-239
Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr Region and South Wales in Historical Comparison....Pages 240-261
Zollverein and Sulzer: The Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Industrial Heritage Sites....Pages 262-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-288