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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Routledge Explorations in Economic History |
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Routledge explorations in economic history.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; The State and Business in the Major Powers; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Part I: Industrialisation and the state 1815-70; 1. Introduction; 2. France, Europe and the Napoleonic legacy; The Western World in 1815; France and the Napoleonic legacy; Industrial protection, tariff policy and French public finances; Business development and the growth of French manufacturing; Planning railways, energy and other infrastructure in France; 3. The unifying German states compared to the United Kingdom |
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The German economy and geo-politics in the early nineteenth centuryTariffs, the Zollverein and German public finances; The state, industrialisation and communications in Germany; The geo-political position of the United Kingdom in the early nineteenth century; British manufacturing, free trade and the public finances; British railways and the imperial telegraph; 4. Free land and unfree labour: USA and Russia; The expanding frontier; Public finances, tariff policy and industrialisation in Russia; Business organisation, serfdom and the Russian state |
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The American Constitution, the military and land policyAmerican cotton, slavery, tariffs and industrialisation; Government and the expansion of the US transport infrastructure; Part II: Business growth and the nation states 1870-1939; 5. German business in the world economy: cartels to autarky; The political and economic geography of the new German Reich; The distinctive character of German business growth; Trade, tariffs and cartels; Regulation and ownership of businesses in energy, transport and telecommunications; Public finances, state enterprises and the move to autarky |
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6. Peasant farms, industrial growth and national defence in FranceIntroduction: strategic and economic problems; Stagnant population and agriculture?; French business and the growth of manufacturing; Industrial policies and national defence; The concession system in energy, transport and telecommunications; Appendix: sectoral shares and productivity growth in manufacturing in the major powers 1860-1928; 7. Peasant economy, industrial growth and national defence in Russia 1870-1939; The Russian problem; Finance and protection for defence: the public finances and tariff policy |
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Emancipation and reform: peasant agriculture to 1913State enterprise and direct intervention in industry and transport; From new economic policy to central planning: Russia 1920-39; Appendix: the challenge from the newcomer, Japan 1870-1939; 8. The costs of being first: Britain 1870-1939; Strategic policy instruments and the business sector in the defence of Britain; Government and business investment in the urban infrastructure; Manufacturing in the first industrial nation; State protection and the promotion of structural change in industry; Problem networks: electricity and railways |
| Summary |
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the state emerged as a major player in the economies of the Western World. This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business relations in the major powers: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK and the USA. The book challenges the traditional story that the scale of state intervention reflected the degree to which each country was ideologically committed to laissez-faire, and which also tended to assume that governments were interested in economic growth and raising average living |
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9. USA 1870-1939: natural resources, free markets and fractured government |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Business and politics -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century
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Business and politics -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century
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Industrial policy -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century
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Industrial policy -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135970468 |
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1135970467 |
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