1st Edition
Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century France, Germany, Russia and the United States
Taken in conjunction the author’s 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.
PREFACE vii
PART I
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Leading Features of the Economic History of the Great Powers in the Nineteenth Century… 3
" 2. Main Periods and Their Characteristics… 14
PART II
THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
" 1. Personal Freedom and the Agricultural Revolution… 35
" 2. France and the Agricultural Revolution… 47
" 3. Germany and the Agricultural Revolution… 60
" 4. Russia and the Agricultural Revolution… 75
" 5. Agricultural Development in the UNITED States… 84
PART III
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
" 1. France and the Industrial Revolution… 105
" 2. Germany and the Industrial Revolution… 153
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Chapter 3. Russia and the Industrial Revolution… 175
" 4. Industrial Development in the United States… 188
PART IV
THE REVOLUTION WROUGHT BY MECHANICAL TRANSPORT
" 1. Transport in France… 209
" 2. Transport in Germany… 216
" 3. Transport in russia… 225
" 4. Transport in the United States… 229
PART V
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL POLICIES
" 1. French Tariffs… 239
" 2. The German Zollverein… 254
" 3. Russian Fiscal Policy… 275
" 4. Tariff History in the United States… 288
" 5. National Expansion… 305
PART VI
GROWTH OF STATE ACTION
" 1. Aspects… 339
" 2. Causes… 342
BIBLIOGRAPHY… 351
INDEX… 355
Biography
L.C.A. Knowles
