Marginal Europe : the contribution of marginal lands since the Middle Ages / Sidney Pollard.

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.

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Pollard, Sidney
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Genre:Electronic books.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (327 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-322) and index.
ISBN:9780191677106
0191677108
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Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.