Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

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.

• "Table of ContentsIntroduction 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; Patricia 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 Boldorf4. Space and industry in the economic region Black Country; Juliane Czierpka5. 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 Thorade7. The concept of regional industrialization from the perspective of theeconomic history of East Central Europe; Uwe Müller8. Global markets and regional industrialization: the emergence of the saxon textile industry, 1790-1914; Michael Schäfer9. Industrialization and agriculture. The beet sugar industry in Saxony-Anhalt, 1799–1902; Dirk Schaal10. 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 Prime11. Housing the workers: Re-visiting employer villages in mid-19th-century Europe; Tilman Frasch, Terry Wyke12. The identity of mining engineers: a void in the memory of mining communities; Willemijne Linssen13. Similarities and discrepancies: The workers'' discourse in ''the Greater Region'' of Luxembourg and the French region of Lorraine; Laure Caregari14. Industrial heritage in the Ruhr Region and South Wales in historical comparison; Kathrin Oerters15. Zollverein and Sulzer: The Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Industrial Heritage Sites; Heike Oevermann and Harald A. Mieg