Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138670853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

Ben Wubs; Hein a. M. Klemann; Marten Boon

Opis

Since the onset of the industrial revolution, the relationship between the Port of Rotterdam, Europe's largest, and the industrial powerhouse of the German Ruhr region, for many years, the continent's dominant industrial region have been intimately intertwined. As Rotterdam is in the Netherlands and the Ruhr in Germany, the way the relationship developed can only be properly analysed from the transnational point of view; new economic geography and new approaches in geography such as the global value chain, supply chain and global cities approaches having called for greater attention to be paid to regions and their transnational connections. The authors of this book show how transnational economic links in the region were created, sustained and disrupted, particularly focusing on long-term economic and technological developments, and political shocks such as World War II.

Spis treści

1. Transnational regions from a historical perspective: Rotterdam’s port and Ruhr industry, 1870–2010 2. The Rhine in the long 19th century: creating the Lower Rhine region 3. Coal, iron ore and the rise of the Rotterdam-Ruhr relationship, 1850–1914 4. Tensions within the Lower Rhine economy: AKU versus VGF, 1929–1969 5. Coal to oil and the post-war expansion of port and hinterland, 1945–1973 6. Port competition and the containerisation of hinterland transport, 1966–2010