1. For some examples of the extensive bibliography addressing the importance of the regional experience of in industrialization, see R. G. Wilson, Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds 1700–1830 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1971); Pat Hudson, The Genesis of Industrial Capitalism: A Study of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry, c. 1750–1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); and Pat Hudson ed. Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); Maxine Berg ed. Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe (London: Routledge, 1991).