European Regions
The Territorial Structure of Europe Since 1870
Published on 27. April 2016
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-1-4039-2052-2 (ISBN)
Description
"European Regions" is a comparative and historical reference handbook with accompanying CD-ROM, giving comprehensive coverage of territorial regions throughout the whole of Europe in the period 1870-2000. The work provides a systematic presentation of state formation and boundary building, their territorial structure and political administrative status of regions for each of the 23 countries covered. In addition, the CD-ROM contains a complete set of digital regional maps in GIS format for the single countries and Europe as a whole for various points in time (usually ten year intervals).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Gordonsville
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-2052-2 (9781403920522)
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Persons
PETER FLORA is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim. FRANZ KRAUS is Head of EURODATA Research Archive at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. DANIELE CARAMANI received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 1997. He worked from 1996 to 1999 at the EURODATA Research Archive of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He is currently Professor at the Faculties of Political Science of Florence and Urbino and a Senior Research Fellow at MZES. JORDI MARTI-HENNEBERG is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Lleida, Spain
Content
PART I: EUROPEAN REGIONS BETWEEN CONTINUITY AND CHANGE The Territorial Structuring of Europe The Regions of Europe: A Political Geography Perspective The Regions of Europe: A Political Science Perspective Regions and Official Statistics in Europe PART II: COUNTRY CHAPTERS Section A: Western Europe France Germany Belgium Netherlands Switzerland Section B: The British Isles United Kingdom Ireland Section C: Scandinavia Denmark Norway Sweden Finland Section D: Southern Europe Italy Spain Portugal Section E: Central-Eastern Europe Austria-Hungary Austria Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, and Slovakia Poland Hungary Section F: The Balkans Yugoslavia and Successor States Bulgaria Romania Greece Section G: Smaller Countries Albania, Cyprus, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta and the Baltic States