Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on May 25, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(2):444-446; doi:10.1093/es/khm039
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Hubert Kiesewetter. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren
Hubert Kiesewetter. Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland: Regionen als Wachstumsmotoren. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2005. 307 pp. ISBN 3-515-08613-7,
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The volume is an updated version of Kiesewetter's 1989 book with nearly the same title (Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland 18141914), published with Suhrkamp. Although Kiesewetter takes new literature into account, there is little change within the text since the 1989 edition. Two tables have been added. Kiesewetter maintains that the industrial revolution was not a national but a regional event, which only through aggregation by statisticians was suggested to be national. Geographers undervalued this insight because they are trained to understand every item in its relation to space. But, it is quite new to many historians who
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