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Marginal Europe - The Contribution of Marginal Lands since the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Marginal Europe - The Contribution of Marginal Lands since the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The momentum of the British industrial revolution arose mostly in
regions poorly endowed by nature, badly located and considered
backward and poor by contemporaries. Sidney Pollard examines the
initially surprising contribution made by the population of these
and other `marginal areas' (mountains, forests and marshes) to the
economic development of Europe since the Middle Ages. He provides
case studies of periods in which marginal areas took the lead in
economic development, such as the Dutch economy in its Golden Age,
and in the British industrial revolution. The traditional
perception of the populations inhabiting these regions was that
they were poor, backward, and intellectually inferior; but Sidney
Pollard shows how they also had certain peculiar qualities which
predisposed them to initiate progress. Healthy living, freedom, a
martial spirit, and the hardiness to survive in harsh conditions
enabled them to contribute a unique pioneering ability to pivotal
economic periods; illustrating some of the effects of geography
upon the development of societies.
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