Regions, Localities, and Industrialisation

Evidence from the East Midlands Circa 1780 - 1840

Bibliographic Data

ID4138683
AuthorsJon Stobart (0000-0002-9771-4741, Coventry University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume33
Issue7
Pages1305-1325
Publication date2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a33221
OpenAlexW1984848217
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited48

Regions form one of the fundamental categories of geographical thought and analysis and yet are far from being fixed spatial entities. Analysis of the East Midlands in the 19th century highlights three important aspects of regional development. The first aspect is that causality was not unilinear. Industrialisation reinforced strong local specialisms and allegiances rather than generating the wider integrated regional economies and identities seen in other industrialising areas. The second aspect is the importance of scale. There was no preordained size for a region: coherent economic and cultural units in the East Midlands operated at a more localised level. The third aspect is the significance of temporal continuity, seen in the persistent centring of economy, social cohesion, and identity onto established urban centres, despite the coalescing forces unleashed by industrial and technological change

Centring · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Industrialisation · Political science · Regional science · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Scottish History and National Identity

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