1st Edition

Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution

Edited By Thorstein Veblen Copyright 1990
388 Pages
by Routledge

386 Pages
by Routledge

Although Imperial Germany was begun before the United States entered World War I, little in the book however relates to that particular conflict. Rather, this is in large part a study of the divergencies in cultural development between the English-speaking peoples and the German-speaking peoples, and of the consequences this produced in economic and social spheres. Suppressed by war censors,... Read more
Introduction, CHAPTER I Introductory — Races and Peoples, CHAPTER II The Old Order CHAPTER III The Dynastic State CHAPTER IV The Case of England CHAPTER V Imperial Germany CHAPTER VI The Industrial Revolution in Germany CHAPTER VII The Economic Policy of the Imperial State CHAPTER VIII The Net Gain, SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

Biography

Thorsten B. Veblen.  Otto G. Mayer is director in a leading German 'Think Tank', HWWA- Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung-Hamburg.