Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe by Kemp Tom

Author:Kemp, Tom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Problems for Discussion

Account for Germany’s belated start on the road to industrialization.

Examine the course of agrarian change in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century with particular reference to its effects on preparing the way for industrial advance.

Discuss the Zollverein and the railways as instruments of German economic unification.

Why did the investment banks play such a prominent role in German industrialization?

‘What Bismarck attempted to do was to compress the political economy of an age of mass production into the outmoded framework of a society adapted to promote a pre-industrial national life’ (R. A. Brady). Discuss this view.

What was the significance of the tariff law of 1879?

Why was the German dyestuffs industry able to gain such a dominant position in world markets before 1914?

Account for the rapidity of German industrialization, note its limitations and consider to what extent Germany benefited from the advantages of the latecomer.

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