Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century: France, Germany, Russia and the United States

by Knowles,L.C.A.

• ISBN13: 9780415379175
• ISBN10: 0415379172
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Taken in conjunction the authors earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume provides a thoroughly workmanlike study of the rise and progress of industrialism. Here she surveys the main developments in the agricultural, industrial, mechanical transport and commercial policy of France. Germany, Russia and the United States. It provides the handiest manual available of the comparative history of industrialism. It is an absolute godsend to students. This book was first published in 1932.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
General Introduction
Leading Features of the Economic History of the Great Powers in the Nineteenth Century	p. 3
Main Periods and their Characteristics	p. 14
The Agricultural Revolution
Personal Freedom and the Agricultural Revolution	p. 35
France and the Agricultural Revolution	p. 47
Germany and the Agricultural Revolution	p. 60
Russia and the Agricultural Revolution	p. 75
Agricultural Development in the United States	p. 84
The Industrial Revolution
France and the Industrial Revolution	p. 105
Germany and the Industrial Revolution	p. 153
Russia and the Industrial Revolution	p. 175
Industrial Development in the United States	p. 188
The Revolution Wrought by Mechanical Transport
Transport in France	p. 209
Transport in Germany	p. 216
Transport in Russia	p. 225
Transport in the United States	p. 229
National Commercial Policies
French Tariffs	p. 239
The German Zollverein	p. 254
Russian Fiscal Policy	p. 275
Tariff History in the United States	p. 288
National Expansion	p. 305
Growth of State Action
Aspects	p. 339
Causes	p. 342
Bibliography	p. 351
Index	p. 355
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