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The Political Economy of Germany, 1815-1914 by Martin Kitchen Pdf
Originally published in 1978, this book goes beyond conventional studies of economic history to discuss wider political and social questions pertinent to the development of the German political economy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The interaction between economic development and social structure played a unique and extremely important role in the development of 19th century Germany and accounts for the distinct manner in which German society developed during this period. This book examines the origins and nature of the German industrial revolution, and effects of the Zollverein on economic growth and national unity, and the critical role of railway building.
The Economic Development of France by J. H. Clapham Pdf
Excerpt from The Economic Development of France: And Germany 1815-1914 For some years now I have lectured at Cambridge over the ground covered by this book. In 1907 I published, in Vol. x of the Cambridge Modern History, a chapter part of which corresponds - in matter and I daresay sometimes in words - with the earlier chapters which follow. I was urged by friends to put all my material into book form, for the use of the growing body of those at Cambridge and elsewhere who now study European economic history and are handicapped by the lack of books in English, and of comprehensive books in any language. I have written with an eye to them; but I hope what I have written may interest others. At first I planned a history of West European economic development in the nineteenth century; but I abandoned this notion, after discussion, for fear that such a book would be either outrageously long or overcrowded with dry and unexplained detail. Even as it is, in this attempt to put French and German economic history into a West European framework, the references to several topics will, I am sure, seem deficient in analytical explanation to many readers. Footnotes have been reduced to a minimum; so some account of the sources on which I have drawn most may be given here. For the earlier period there is a bibliography to my chapter in the Modern History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Excerpt from The German War of 1914: Illustrated by Documents of European History, 1815-1915 I am, I fear, solely responsible for the plan of this book and for the selections in it and for the English translations (except where otherwise stated). But I have received much kind help in the preparation of it, which it is now my pleasant duty to acknowledge. Much of my indebtedness is recorded at the beginnings of the several extracts but I have also to make many special acknowledgments - To the Foreign Office, for the present of a number of published documents, and for hints as to the use of some of them; to the Hon. W. P. Reeves, for his translations of the despatches of M. Venizelos, and for the loan of the Greek original; to Sir F. Pollock, k.c., and to Mr. N. L. Frazer, for advice on questions of copyright; to Mr. R. J. Mackenzie, of the Times, for the German text of the Chancellor's speech on 4 August, 1914 to Mr. Edgar Rowan, Editor of the Echo, for the present of the German facsimiles in the Appendix to Capt. The Rev. G. Anderson Wells, of the Canadian Army, the owner of the Tornisterwdrterbuch, for information concerning it; to Miss C. M. Codd, for permission to print the letter of Garibaldi, and for information on the subject to Mr. H. W. C. Davis, Fellow of Balliol College, for advice on a special point; to Mr. L. H. Taylor, of the British Museum, for help in tracing some German documents; to Miss L. A. O'regan, for much help in copying documents; and to my wife, for much help in their selection, copying, and translation. I have managed to avoid almost entirely the inclusion of any documents already available in the larger Source book, readings from European History, Vol. II., by Professor J. H. Robinson, of Columbia University, u.s.a. I have found it a very suggestive book. I have made much use of that excellent compilation Schilling's Quellenbuch zur Geschichte der N euzeit. Of Mr. Mowat's Select Treaties, which covers part of the ground of my book, I first heard when all my own work was nearly finished. I have seen since the title of one of his selections, something about Switzerland. But I have postponed the reading of his book till after the publication of my own, from the fear of reviving that hopeless feeling one used to have at school, when one had seen a fair copy by J ebb or Sidgwick, before one had finished one's own verses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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