Regions, Industries, and Heritage.

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Introduction1. 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 Development3. 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 ZieglerPart 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

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.