Pat Hudson (ed.)

Regions and Industries

A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain
Herausgeber: Hudson, Pat; Pat, Hudson

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is the contention of this book that industrialization in Britain (and elsewhere) occurred first and foremost within regions rather than in the nation as a whole and that attempts to understand the 'first industrial revolution' as a fundamentally important economic, social and political process are best undertaken with the regional perspective at centre stage. In Regions and Industries a team of distinguished historians contribute a series of interconnected essays illustrative of the richness and variety of fundamental change at regional level. Each essay is focused around a set of clearly articulated themes, concerning the relations between agriculture, population, resources, communications and cultures, and the changing national and international context within which regional economies functioned. The volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the existing theoretical and empirical literature, and emphasizes again the need to evaluate aggregate studies of 'national' variables in the light of contrasting regional experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780521341066
• ISBN-10: 052134106X
• Artikelnr.: 21939115

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The regional perspective Pat Hudson
Part I. The Textile Heartlands of the Industrial Revolution: 2. Proto-industrialisation and the first industrial revolution: the case of Lancashire John K. Walton
3. Capital and credit in the West Riding wool textile industry c.1750-1850 Pat Hudson
Part II. Other Paths, Other Patterns: 4. Continuity and change in an industrialising society: the case of the West Midlands industries Marie B. Rowlands
5. Stages of industrialisation in Cumbria John D. Marshall
6. The de-industrialisation process: a case study of the Weald, 1600-1850 Brian Short
7. Work, culture and resistance to machinery in the West of England woollen industry Adrian J. Randall
Part III. The Diverse nature of the Outer Regions: 8. Two paths to economic development: Wales and the north-east of England Neil Evans
9. Proto-industrialisation in Scotland Ian D. Whyte
10. The environment and dynamic of pre-factory industry in Northern Ireland Leslie A. Clarkson
Index.