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Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective

Edited By Marten Boon, Hein A.M. Klemann, Ben Wubs Copyright 2020
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined to the boundaries of the nation state. This book focuses on the Port of Rotterdam and its hinterland – i.e. the Lower Rhine and the Ruhr area. A transnational perspective is imperative to understand the historical trajectories of the port, the... Read more

1. Transnational regions from a historical perspective: Rotterdam’s port and Ruhr industry, 1870–2010 2. The Rhine in the long 19th century: creating the Lower Rhine region 3. Coal, iron ore and the rise of the Rotterdam-Ruhr relationship, 1850–1914 4. Tensions within the Lower Rhine economy: AKU versus VGF, 1929–1969 5. Coal to oil and the post-war expansion of port and hinterland, 1945–1973 6. Port competition and the containerisation of hinterland transport, 1966–2010

Biography

Marten Boon is researcher at the University of Oslo and an affiliated researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.





Hein A.M. Klemann is Professor of Social and Economic History at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam.





Ben Wubs is Professor of International Business History at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Appointed Project Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University.

"This concise edited volume explores the economic relations between the Dutch Port of Rotterdam and the German Ruhr district from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century. The volume is an excellent example of a successful small-scale project in historical research. The three planned PhDs have been duly delivered, and the project initiators have lived up to their promise of writing an accessible and compact synthesis." --Nico Randeraad, Maastricht University / Centre for the Social History of Limburg (SHCL)

'One of the main strengths of this excellent study, illustrated with many clear and insightful maps, tables and graphs, is that the authors of the various chapters constantly point at the fact that the development of the Lower Rhine region and the Dutch-German relations was not predetermined, but rather a process of roads (not) taken, decisions turning out differently than planned and the influential role played by multinational companies.' - Martijn Lak, Utrecht/Amsterdam

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