Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction, with Refl ections on the Role of Institutional Change 1
5. PART I: Old Regime and Eighteenth- Century Origins of German Industrialization
6. ONE. Population and the Economy 11
7. TWO. German Regions and the Beginnings of Early Industrialization 20
8. THREE. Agricultural Change from the 1760s to the Early Nineteenth Century 59
9. FOUR. Institutional Change and the Role of Early Nineteenth- Century Prussian- German Reforms 68
10. PART TWO. Early Industrialization, 1815– 1848/49
11. FIVE. Early Industrialization, Government Policies, and the German Zollverein 87
12. SIX. The Crises of the 1840s 104
13. PART THREE. The Growth of Industrial Capitalism up to the 1870s
14. SEVEN. “Industrial Breakthrough” and Its Leading Sectors 119
15. EIGHT. Labor and Capital in the Industrial Breakthrough Period 137
16. NINE. Agriculture in the Period of Take- Off and Beyond 150
17. TEN. Money and Banking in the Railway Age 157
18. PART FOUR. Germany’s Emergence as an Industrial Power, 1871– 1914
19. ELEVEN. Growth Trends and Cycles 163
20. TWELVE. The Growth of Industrial Enterprise, Large and Small 172
21. THIRTEEN. Industrial Finance, Money, and Banking 194
22. FOURTEEN. Germany in the World Economy, 1870s to 1914 205
23. FIFTEEN. Urban Growth, 1871– 1914 231
24. EPILOGUE. German Industrialization from a Twentieth- Century Perspective 251
25. Notes 257
26. References 273
27. Index 313