| Abstract: | The volume is an updated version of Kiesewetter's 1989 bookwith nearly the same title (Industrielle Revolution in Deutschland18141914), published with Suhrkamp. Although Kiesewettertakes new literature into account, there is little change withinthe text since the 1989 edition. Two tables have been added.Kiesewetter maintains that the industrial revolution was nota national but a regional event, which only through aggregationby statisticians was suggested to be national. Geographers undervaluedthis insight because they are trained to understand every itemin its relation to space. But, it is quite new to many historianswho |
