Transnational Economic Regions: Capturing an Illusive Phenomenon; Resurrecting the Rhine as an Economic Region; Energy Transition in the Rhine Region; Part I Regional Transformation: Energy Transition in the Rhine Region; 1 The Post-War Reconstruction and the Rise of Oil ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2...

For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new...

Regional transformation : energy transition in the Rhine Region -- The post-war reconstruction and the rise of oil, 1945-1951 -- Oil unbounded: the coal crisis of 1957-8 -- The growth of chemical clusters in the Rhine Region, 1960-73 -- Regional connections : from Rhine to pipeline -- Pipelines:...