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

• Germany at the End of the Eighteenth Century
• Germany during the Napoleonic Wars (1793 to 1806-15)
• Germany after the Congress of Vienna
• Germany and the Zollverein (1834-1866)
• Germany and the North German Confederation (1866-1870)
• The German Kaiserreich

Chapter 2. A Quantitative Overview of Germany's Economic Expansion in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3. Institutional and Commercial Preconditions

• Agrarian Reforms: The Case of Prussia
• The Development of the German Zollverein,
• The Zollverein and Monetary Integration: The Rise of the Mark
• The Impact of Monetary and Banking Reforms
• A Methodological Note on Causality

Chapter 4. The Emergence of a Modern Economy

• Capital Formation
• Labor Force
• Labor in Agriculture
• Labor in Industry and Handicrafts
• Technology and Competition: The Case of the Iron Industry
• Railways and the Leading Sector Syndrome: Backward and Forward Linkages
• The Role of the State

PART II: THE GERMAN ECONOMY SINCE THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 5. Agriculture

• Production and Productivity
• Agricultural Protection

Chapter 6. Population and Labor

• Population and Migration
• Population Growth
• Population Dynamics
• Migration
• Labor Force Development
• Size and Structure
• Quality of Labor
• Living Conditions
• Institutional Arrangements

Chapter 7. Money and Banking

• Structure of the Banking Sector
• Contributions of Banks to Industrial Growth

Chapter 8. Entrepreneurship

• Social Origins and Mobility
• Traditional Obstacles
• Qualifications
• Political Influence

Chapter 9. The Role of the State

• Mercantilist Traditions and Periodization
• "New" Economic Policies
• Nationalization of the Railways
• Fiscal and Tariff Policy
• Social Policy

Chapter 10. The International Economy

• International Trade at Mid-century
• Trade Expansion, 1870-1914
• Growing Protectionism after 1870
• Foreign Investment

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index