From Old Regime to Industrial State – A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

Richard H. Tilly is emeritus professor of economic and social history at the University of Münster. Michael Kopsidis is deputy head of the department agricultural markets at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).

Preface
Introduction, with Reflections on the Role of Institutional Change
Part One: Old Regime and Eighteenth-Century Origins of German Industrialization

One / Population and the Economy
Two / German Regions and the Beginnings of Early Industrialization
Three / Agricultural Change from the 1760s to the Early Nineteenth Century
Four / Institutional Change and the Role of Early Nineteenth-Century Prussian-German Reforms

Part Two: Early Industrialization, 1815–1848/49

Five / Early Industrialization, Government Policies, and the German Zollverein
Six / The Crises of the 1840s

Part Three: The Growth of Industrial Capitalism up to the 1870s

Seven / “Industrial Breakthrough” and Its Leading Sectors
Eight / Labor and Capital in the Industrial Breakthrough Period
Nine / Agriculture in the Period of Take-Off and Beyond
Ten / Money and Banking in the Railway Age

Part Four: Germany’s Emergence as an Industrial Power, 1871–1914

Eleven / Growth Trends and Cycles
Twelve / The Growth of Industrial Enterprise, Large and Small
Thirteen / Industrial Finance, Money, and Banking
Fourteen / Germany in the World Economy, 1870s to 1914
Fifteen / Urban Growth, 1871–1914: Economic and Social Dimensions
Epilogue: German Industrialization from a Twentieth-Century Perspective
  Notes
References
Index