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Item Details
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REGIONAL IDENTITY AND ECONOMIC CHANGE
THE UPPER RHINE 1450-1600 |
| By: |
Tom Scott |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£165.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198206445 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198206446 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 January, 1998 |
| Pages: |
372 |
| Description: |
Europe lives in an age of regionalism and regional identities which offer an alternative to the rigidities of organization by nation-state. Historically, such regions have been defined (if at all) in cultural, linguistic, ethnic, or political terms, with little emphasis on the economic factors in the period before industrialization. Tom Scott's intensive study of one region - the Upper Rhine between 1450 and 1600 - redresses this imbalance. In this locality, dividedbetween three countries and historically marginalized, Dr Scott reveals the existence of a modern sense of regional identity working across national frontiers, and predicated on common economic interests. |
| Synopsis: |
The current debate about the best methods of European organization - central or regional - is influenced by an awareness of regional identity, which offers an alternative to the rigidities of organization by nation-state. Yet where does the sense of regionalism come from? What are the distinctive factors that transform a geographical area into a particular 'region'? Tom Scott addresses these questions in this study of one apparently 'natural' region - the Upper Rhine - between 1450 and 1600. This region has been divided between three countries and so historically marginalized, yet Dr Scott is able to trace the existence of a sense of historical regional identity cutting across national frontiers, founded on common economic interests. But that identity was always contingent and precarious, neither 'natural' nor immutable. |
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| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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