In the context of the general trend towards regionalism as a focus for public policy and as a source of cultural and political identity, an interdisciplinary team from Newcastle University combine to analyze how this affects the North East of England.
A study of the north east of England. It has its origins in its editors' interest in debates about the "re-emergence" of the region as a basic unit of economic analysis and as the sphere most suited to the interaction of political, social and economic processes in an era of "globalization".
'Taken together, these essays do reveal something of the the contemporary mood of the region and, more particuarly, the complex feelings of those of us who study the North-East.' Local Government Studies