Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes analysieren regionale Industrialisierungsverläufe vor dem Hintergrund vorindustrieller regionaler Gewerbetraditionen. Minutiös werden die unterschiedlichen Ressourcenausstattungen der Regionen untersucht und Ursachen für die Pfadabhängigkeit der...

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and...

The paper examines the interdependence of historical legacies and current contextual factors as determinants of economic and political performance. It shows that behavioral patterns based on identical legacies could lead to very different (if not the opposite) results in regions with different...