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 |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. |
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Table of 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.