The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920

by Christopher H. Johnson

In this seminal book, Christopher Johnson writes a full-scale study of the rise and decline of industrialization in the Bas-Languedoc region of France. Working within a broad 200-year frame, Johnson examines the process of how and why a successful industrial region transformed itself to agriculture. Johnson is primarily interested in de-industrialization, which sets him apart from previous historians who have studied regions only in terms of the growth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045084
• ISBN13: 9780195045086
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"