An economic history of nineteenth-century Europe : diversity and industrialization / Iván T. Berend.
"Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From merchant to industrial capitalism in Northwestern Europe
- Knowledge and the entrepreneurial state
- Agriculture, transportation, and communication
- The organisation of business and finance
- Three versions of successful industrialization
- The miracle of knowledge and the state: Scandinavia
- Demographic revolution, transformation of life, and standard of living
- The Europeanization of Europe
- The "sleeping" peripheries, traditional institutions and values
- The Western sparks that ignite modernization
- Advantage from dependence: Central Europe, the Baltic Area, Finland and Ireland
- Profiting from foreign interests: the Mediterranean and Russia
- The predator Leviathan in peasant societies: the Balkans and the borderlands of Austria-Hungary
- Epilogue: economic disparity and alternative postwar economic regimes.