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It is often said that industrialization on the Continent was not initiated by private enterprise alone as in the British Isles, but was essentially assisted by government activity. ‘On the Continent the State played a much more active part in fostering economic progress than was customary in England or Scotland in the early nineteenth century’, writes W. O. Henderson, one of the foremost experts in the comparative economic history of Europe in the nineteenth century.1 ‘To a Frenchman, or a German, the economic activities of the government in Ireland were normal while the laissez-faire attitude of the government in England was abnormal.’
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W. O. Henderson, The State and the Industrial Revolution in Prussia, 1740–1870, Liverpool University Press, 1958, p. xvi.
Cf. W. Fischer, ‘The German Zollverein: A Case Study in Customs Union’, Kyklos, Vol. XIII, 1960, pp. 65–89.
W. O. Henderson, The Zollverein, 2nd ed., London, 1960.
Cf. W. M. Frh. v. Bissing, ‘Der deutsche Zollverein und die monetären Probleme’, Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 79, 1959, pp. 71–86.
A. Prym, Staatswirtschaft und Privatunternehmung in der Geschichte des Ruhrkohlenbergbaus, Essen, 1950;
F. Schunder, Tradition und Fortschritt: Hundert Jahre Gemeinschaftsarbeit im Ruhrbergbau, Stuttgart, 1959;
K. v. Rohrscheidt, Vom Zunftzwange zur Gewerbefreiheit, Berlin, 1898.
W. Fischer, Handwerksrecht und Handwerkswirtschaft um 1800, Studien zur Sozialund Wirtschaftsverfassung vor der industriellen Revolution, Berlin, 1955.
See also: A. H. Price, The Evolution of the Zollverein, 1949.
For the economic aspect see, e.g., J. Viner, The Customs Union Issue, London, 1950, or
J. E. Meade, The Theory of Customs Union, Amsterdam, 1955.
P. Siebertz, Ferdinand von Steinbeiss: ein Wegbereiter der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, 1952.
A. Kuntzemüller, Die badischen Eisenbahnen, 2nd ed., Karlsruhe, 1953.
Cf. W. Fischer, Staat und Industrie in Baden, 1800–1850, Vol. I, Berlin, 1960.
Cf. the chapter ‘Rother and the Seehandlung, 1810–1848’ in W. O. Henderson, The State and the Industrial Revolution in Prussia, 1740–1870, Liverpool University Press, 1958.
J. A. Schumpeter, Business Cycles, Vol. I, 1939, p. 283.
W. Köllman, Sozialgeschichte der Stadt Barmen im 19. Jahrhundert, Tübingen, 1959;
H. Kisch, ‘The Textile Industries in Silesia and the Rhineland: A Comparative Study in Industrialization’, Journal of Economic History, 1959, pp. 541–64;
W. Fischer, ‘Ansätze zur Industrialisierung in Baden, 1770–1870’, Vierteljahrsschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 47, 1960;
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Fischer, W. (1963). Government Activity and Industrialization in Germany (1815–70). In: Rostow, W.W. (eds) The Economics of Take-Off into Sustained Growth. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-63959-5_5
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