Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century: France, Germany, Russia and the United StatesTaken 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. |
Contents
LEADING FEATURES OF THE ECONOMIC | 3 |
PERSONAL FREEDOM AND THE AGRICUL | 35 |
AGRICULTURAL | 60 |
THE AGRICULTURAL | 75 |
UNITED STATES | 84 |
REVOLUTION | 153 |
RUSSIA AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION | 175 |
TRANSPORT IN THE UNITED STATES | 229 |
FRENCH TARIFFS | 239 |
19 | 258 |
RUSSIAN FISCAL POLICY | 275 |
ASPECTS | 339 |
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