Regional Identity and Economic Change: The Upper Rhine 1450-1600 [Hardcover]

Tom Scott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0198206445 | ISBN-13: 978-0198206446

Europe lives in 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 defined at all--in cultural, linguistic, ethnic, or political terms, with little emphasis on the economic factors of 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, divided between three countries and historically marginalized, Scott reveals the existence of a modern sense of regional identity working across national frontiers, and predicated on common economic interests.

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Review

"Tom Scott has written a learned, well-reasoned, and sophisticated piece of scholarship with a superbly detailed bibliography. This book offers much to someone interested in the Upper Rhine and in economic development in preindustrial Europe."--Sixteenth Century Journal

About the Author

Tom Scott is a Reader in History at University of Liverpool.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 376 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198206445
• ISBN-13: 978-0198206446
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #834,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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