From old regime to industrial state : a history of German industrialization from the eighteenth century to World War I

Author(s)

• Tilly, Richard H.
• Kopsidis, Michael

Bibliographic Information

From old regime to industrial state : a history of German industrialization from the eighteenth century to World War I

Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis

（Markets and governments in economic history）

University of Chicago Press, 2020

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-311) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction, with Reflections on the Role of Institutional Change Part One: Old Regime and Eighteenth-Century Origins of German Industrialization One / Population and the Economy Two / German Regions and the Beginnings of Early Industrialization Three / Agricultural Change from the 1760s to the Early Nineteenth Century Four / Institutional Change and the Role of Early Nineteenth-Century Prussian-German Reforms Part Two: Early Industrialization, 1815-1848/49 Five / Early Industrialization, Government Policies, and the German Zollverein Six / The Crises of the 1840s Part Three: The Growth of Industrial Capitalism up to the 1870s Seven / "Industrial Breakthrough" and Its Leading Sectors Eight / Labor and Capital in the Industrial Breakthrough Period Nine / Agriculture in the Period of Take-Off and Beyond Ten / Money and Banking in the Railway Age Part Four: Germany's Emergence as an Industrial Power, 1871-1914 Eleven / Growth Trends and Cycles Twelve / The Growth of Industrial Enterprise, Large and Small Thirteen / Industrial Finance, Money, and Banking Fourteen / Germany in the World Economy, 1870s to 1914 Fifteen / Urban Growth, 1871-1914: Economic and Social Dimensions Epilogue: German Industrialization from a Twentieth-Century Perspective Notes References Index

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Details

• NCID: BC02342353
• ISBN:
  • 9780226725437
• LCCN: 2020004674
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 327 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 338.094309034
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Industrialization -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Germany -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB07378769