Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

Zusatztext

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.

Autorenportrait

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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.

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