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Author Pollard, Sidney

Title Marginal Europe : the contribution of marginal lands since the Middle Ages / Sidney Pollard
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents The concept of the margin -- Filling out the land -- The negative view -- The positive view -- The complementarity thesis -- The German colonization of the East -- The medieval monasteries -- The central European mining regions in the Early Modern Period -- Some later case studies -- The Industrial Revolution and the location of proto-industry
Summary The momentum of the British industrial revolution arose mostly in regions poorly endowed by nature, badly located, and thought backward and poor by contemporaries. Pollard examines the economic contribution made by these and similar marginal areas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-322) and index
Notes English
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Subject Land use -- Europe -- History
Waste lands -- Europe -- History
Industrialization -- Europe -- History
Industrialization
Land use
Waste lands
Perifere regio's.
Invloed.
Economische ontwikkeling.
Friches -- Europe -- Histoire.
Sol, Utilisation du -- Europe -- Histoire.
Industrialisation -- Histoire.
Disparités régionales -- Europe -- Histoire.
Économie régionale -- Histoire.
Europe
Europe -- Conditions économiques.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191677106
0191677108