Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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