Toni Pierenkemper & Richard Tilly 
The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century [PDF ebook] 

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
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

Richard Tilly is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Münster.