Toni Pierenkemper is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Cologne.
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Foreword
Introduction
PART I: THE GENERAL FRAMEWORK AND FOUNDATIONS OF GERMAN INDUSTRIALIZATION
Chapter 1. The German "State": Changing Boundaries
Chapter 2. A Quantitative Overview of Germany's Economic Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3. Institutional and Commercial Preconditions
Chapter 4. The Emergence of a Modern Economy
PART II: THE GERMAN ECONOMY SINCE THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 5. Agriculture
Chapter 6. Population and Labor
Chapter 7. Money and Banking
Chapter 8. Entrepreneurship
Chapter 9. The Role of the State
Chapter 10. The International Economy
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societies. Even though industrialization is on the wane in some advanced economies and we are experiencing substantial structural changes again, the causes and consequences of these changes are inextricably linked with earlier industrialization.This means that understanding 19th Century industrialization helps us understand problems of contemporary economic growth. There is no recent study on economic developments in 19th Century Germany. So this concise volume, written specifically with students of German and economic history in mind, will prove to be most valuable, not least because of its wealth of statistical data.