Regions, Industries, and Heritage

1. 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
Pat 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 the Economic 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, Harald A. Mieg

Keywords: History, Social History, European History, Economic History, Modern History