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A rich picture of the complexities of early industrial development in the north-east of England.Historians increasingly emphasise that, in order to understand the industrial revolution fully as an economic, social and political process, the subject is best viewed from a regional, rather than a national, perspective. This book applies such an approach to the north-east of England in the early modern period, when, it is argued, the region experienced an early industrial revolution. Putting forward several new research findings and much new thinking, and covering many aspects of the economy of north-east England in the period, the book shows how rich and varied it was, and how vital the interplay of social, political and cultural forces was for industrial development. The book demonstrates that the economy of north-east England was not dominated by coal alone, and that previous historians' focus on 'the working class' misrepresents the full complexities of society in the period. Overall, the book has much to offer economic and social historians and historians of regional development generally, not just those interested in north-east England. ADRIAN GREEN is Lecturer in History at Durham University. He is co-editor ofRegional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000 (The Boydell Press, 2007). BARBARA CROSBIE is Assistant Professor in History at Durham University, and is completing a study of The Rising Generations: AgeRelations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England. Contributors: A. T. BROWN, JOHN BROWN, ANDY BURN, BARBARA CROSBIE, ADRIAN GREEN , MATTHEW D. GREENHALL, LINDSAY HOUPT-VARNER, GWENDA MORGAN, PETER RUSHTON, LEONA SKELTON, PETER D. WRIGHT, KEITH WRIGHTSON

A study of trade, business and economy in the North East reveals it to be a more diverse and less unified region than popularly perceived.

A study of England's north-eastern parts that examines counties Durham and Northumberland as well as Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This book focuses on the extent to which the county gentry and urban elites possessed a sense of regional identity.

Relations between the laity and the religious in medieval Durham reveal much about lay religion of the time.

A comprehensive account of the everyday lives of the keelmen of Tyneside, and their struggles and industrial disputes.

The medieval development of the distinct region of north-east England explored through close examination of landscape, religion and history.

The several thousand names recorded here cast light on how the church in Northumbria interacted with contemporary lay and ecclesiastical society over six hundred years.

Evidence from unused sources sheds much light on the peasant economy of the later middle ages.