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Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

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

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Editors:
  1. Juliane Czierpka

    1. Göttingen University, Germany

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  2. Kathrin Oerters

    1. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

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  3. Nora Thorade

    1. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  3. Industrialization, Regionalization, and Spatiality: An Examination of Regions during Their Industrial Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-41
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    2. The Ulster Linen Triangle: An Industrial Cluster Emerging from a Proto-Industrial Region

      • Marcel Boldorf
      Pages 25-41

    3. Space and Industry in the Economic Region Black Country

      • Juliane Czierpka
      Pages 42-53

    4. Early Start and Late Breakthrough: The Industrialization of the Minette Region in Lorraine and Luxembourg

      • Ralf Banken
      Pages 54-72

    5. Coal, Transport, and Industrial Development: The Impact of Coal Mining in Lower Silesia

      • Nora Thorade
      Pages 73-89

    6. The Concept of Regional Industrialization from the Perspective of the Economic History of East Central Europe

      • Uwe Müller
      Pages 90-115

    7. Global Markets and Regional Industrialization: The Emergence of the Saxon Textile Industry, 1790–1914

      • Michael Schäfer
      Pages 116-135

    8. Industrialization and Agriculture: The Beet Sugar Industry in Saxony-Anhalt, 1799–1902

      • Dirk Schaal
      Pages 136-147

    9. Beyond the Leading Regions: Agricultural Modernization and Rural Industrialization in North-Western Germany

      • Dieter Ziegler
      Pages 148-169

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

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      Pages 171-171
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    2. Housing the Workers: Re-visiting Employer Villages in Mid-19th-century Europe

      • Tilman Frasch, Terry Wyke
      Pages 173-197

    3. The Identity of Mining Engineers: A Void in the Memory of Mining Communities

      • Willemijne Linssen
      Pages 198-216

    4. Similarities and Discrepancies: The Workers’ Discourse in ‘the Greater Region’ of Luxembourg and the French Region of Lorraine

      • Laure Caregari
      Pages 217-239

    5. Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr Region and South Wales in Historical Comparison

      • Kathrin Oerters
      Pages 240-261

    6. Zollverein and Sulzer: The Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Industrial Heritage Sites

      • Heike Oevermann, Harald A. Mieg
      Pages 262-281

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 283-288
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Göttingen University, Germany

    Juliane Czierpka

  • Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

    Kathrin Oerters, Nora Thorade

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe

  • Editors: Juliane Czierpka, Kathrin Oerters, Nora Thorade

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333414

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33340-7Published: 24 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33341-4Published: 21 March 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6559

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6567

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 288

  • Topics: Social History, European History, Economic History, Modern History

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