Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: shifting the economic development agenda
  • Economic development and the urban system
  • Uneven development: geographical specialisation and inter-dependency
  • An advanced organic economy: the textile industries
  • A mineral-based energy economy: coal-using industries
  • The service sector and urban hierarchies
  • Spatial integration and the urban system
  • Conclusions: the integration of local, regional, national and international economies
  • Sources of urban population totals for north-west England in the 1770s
  • Probate records as sources of occupational information.