Marginal Europe: The Contribution of Marginal Lands since the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Pollard, Sidney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198206380 ISBN 13: 9780198206385

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The momentum of the British industrial revolution arose mostly in regions poorly endowed by nature, badly located and considered backward and poor by contemporaries. Pollard examines the influence of geography upon the environment, asking why people living in marginal areas (mountains, forests, marshes) have taken the lead in key phases of European progress, such as in the Dutch Golden Age.

About this title

About the Author:

Sidney Pollard, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, Bielefield University.

Review:

This is a bold and ambitious set of claims, and Pollard has mobilized a vast scholarship ... supporting his argument ... Interesting, learned and scholarly, the book's approach is firmly grounded in a traditional master narrative of European progress. * Peter Sahlins, Journal of Modern History, Vol 71, no 3 September 1999 * The book is the outcome of a lifetime's scholarship, and is based on over 1,800 listed books, articles and theses. It is one of those books that forces us to modify the way we look at the history of Europe's economic development. * Michael Palairet, The International History Review, XXI.2 June 1999 * It is possibly the book's major contribution to have brought a large and compelling amount of evidence to bear upon this important and heretofore overlooked point. * S. R. Epstein, Economic Histiory Review *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0198206380
• ISBN 13: 9780198206385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336