Towns, Regions and Industries: Urban and Industrial Change in the Midlands, C.1700-1840Jon Stobart, Neil Raven Manchester University Press, 04.06.2005 - 272 Seiten When he coined the phrase in 1884, Arnold Toynbee saw the industrial revolution as the beginning of the modern age, marking a unique turning point in British economic and social history. The old order had been suddenly, dramatically and irrevocably swept away and technological innovation had transformed all aspects of society. However, this interpretation of the processes of industrialisation overlooks a more subtle, macro-economic, gradualist understanding of industrialisation. Specifically, it ignores the importance of geography as a cause and outcome of historical change, occuring through space as well as time and thus fails to see English industrialisation as a spatially uneven process. Concentrating on the Midlands, this book, drawing on a wealth of original research by an eminent collection of scholars, seeks to develop a fresh understanding of the complex range of urban industrial activity taking place in England during the 18th and 19th centuries. Focusing on the concomitant process of urbanisation, it explains how regional urban systems both shaped and responded to processes of industrialisation and how urban systems influenced growth and raised the potential for development in particular locales. Examining a variety of Midland communities, from the new coalfield towns to established industrial centres, to historic country villages, the book develops a systematic analysis of themes central to the structure and geography of urban and industrial change, focusing on the service sector, transport networks and the role of women in manufacturing and business. The book concludes with a broadening out of its geographical and conceptual horizons, placing the urban, industrial and regional development of the Midlands within a national and international frramework, to underline the differences and similarities between other towns, regions and industries |
Inhalt
a regional survey | 23 |
Industrialisation and the service economy Andrew Hann | 42 |
urban women | 62 |
transport in the Midlands | 80 |
the changing character of manufacturing | 102 |
Burslem | 121 |
Wolverhampton transformed | 134 |
Lichfield Leonard Schwarz | 176 |
regional development in comparative context | 191 |
Belgian developments | 210 |
a European perspective | 228 |
Bibliography | 246 |
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activity areas Berg Bilston Birmingham Black Country British Burslem canals capital carrier cent Chapter Clark coaches coal coalfields consumer cotton county towns cultural dealers Derby early nineteenth century east Midlands economic eighteenth century elite England English entrepreneurs established European expansion export factory geography hinterland hosiery important increase indus industrial centres industrial development industrial regions industrial revolution industrial towns industrialisation investment iron labour lace Langton late eighteenth Leicester Leicestershire Leicestershire RO leisure town Lichfield London Loughborough Manchester market towns Midlands towns Newcastle-under-Lyme Nottingham Nottinghamshire organised Pigot's Directory 1835 places population Potteries production proto-industrial railway regional industrialisation retail road role rural service sector shopkeepers shops Shrewsbury Shropshire significant small towns social spatial specialisation Staffordshire Stobart structures textile tion town's trade transport Trinder turnpike turnpike trusts urban growth Urban History urban system urbanisation VCH Staffordshire Walsall Wedgwood West Bromwich whilst Wolverhampton women Worcester
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