An economic history of nineteenth-century Europe : diversity and industrialization
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An economic history of nineteenth-century Europe : diversity and industrialization
Cambridge University Press, 2013
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-511) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic path and outcome. Presenting a clear and cogent explanation of the historical causes of advancement and backwardness, Ivan Berend integrates social, political, institutional and cultural factors as well as engaging in debates about the relative roles of knowledge, the state and institutions. Featuring boxed essays on key personalities including Adam Smith, Friedrich List, Gustave Eiffel and the Krupp family, as well as brief histories of innovations such as the steam engine, vaccinations and the co-operative system, the book helps to explain the theories and macro-economic trends that dominated the century and their impact on the subsequent development of the European economy right up to the present day.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Gradual Revolution: 1. From merchant to industrial capitalism in Northwestern Europe
- Part II. Successful Industrial Transformation of the West: 2. Knowledge and the entrepreneurial state
- 3. Agriculture, transportation, and communication
- 4. The organisation of business and finance
- 5. Three versions of successful industrialization
- 6. The miracle of knowledge and the state: Scandinavia
- 7. Demographic revolution, transformation of life and standard of living
- 8. The Europeanization of Europe
- Part III. The Peripheries: Semi-Success or Failure of Modern Transformation: 9. The 'sleeping' peripheries, traditional institutions and values
- 10. The Western sparks that ignite modernization
- 11. Advantage from dependence: Central Europe, the Baltic Area, Finland and Ireland
- 12. Profiting from foreign interests: the Mediterranean and Russia
- 13. The predator Leviathan in peasant societies: the Balkans and the borderlands of Austria-Hungary
- Epilogue: economic disparity - and alternative postwar economic regimes
- References.
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