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

By Tom Scott

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198206445
• ISBN13: 9780198206446
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"