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100			_aBerend, Ivan T.
245		3	_aAn economic history of nineteenth-century Europe/ _bdiversity and industrialization _cIvan T. Berend
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aCambridge: _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_aXVIII, 356 s. : il. ; _c25 cm.
505			_aIntroduction Content and comparative method: pan-European interconnections, major regional differences Interrelated Europe: four distinctive paths towards modern economic transformation Debates and differences / The time-span What kind of economic history? Part I Gradual revolution 1 From merchant to industrial capitalism in Northwestern Europe The global environment: Europe, the Islamic world, and China Northwestern merchant capitalism and colonialism New science and values Demography, agriculture, and industry The Industrial Revolution Conclusion Part II Successful industrial transformation of the West 2 Knowledge and the entrepreneurial state The spread of the new Zeitgeist Science into education The entrepreneurial state, promoter of trade and industry 3 Agriculture, transportation, and communication The agricultural revolution The role of agriculture in modern economic transformation Transportation: canals and roads Railroads Communication and postal service 4 The organization of business and finance Three consecutive banking revolutions The insurance industry Business organization, joint-stock companies, and the stock exchange 5 Three versions of successful industrialization Long-surviving proto-industry Fully industrialized Britain British decline after 1870? In the footsteps of Britain Specialized agriculture combined with food processing' The second Industrial Revolution 6 The miracle of knowledge and the state: Scandinavia The economic situation in the periphery: Scandinavia until 1870 Modern society without a developed economy Rapid modernization and industrialization 7 Demographic revolution, transformation of life, and standard of living Demographic revolution The causes of the population explosion Changing fiimily functions and female labor Urbanization The standard of living and the diet revolution 8 The Europeanization of Europe Colonial Western Europe in the globalizing world The European idea and national integration Institutionalized economic integration and trade The West as a source of finance: capital flow into Europe Did a European business cycle exist? Part III The peripheries: semi-success or failure of modern transformation 9 The "sleeping" peripheries, traditional institutions, and values Time stands still The demonstration effect: the West as model Population explosion and emigration 10 The Western sparks that ignite modernization Capital inflow to the peripheries The rise of strong, modern hanking systems Building the modern transportation systems Road and water transportation Backward countries with developed railroads 11 Advantage from dependence: Central Europe, the Baltic area, Finland, and Ireland Imperial markets and agricultural modernization The beginning of industrialization 12 Profiting from foreign interests: the Mediterranean and Russia Foreign interest and agriculture Growth of the traditional grain economy in Russia ^ The impact of the grain crisis from the 1870s Advanced industrial pockets and predominant proto-industry / 13 The predator Leviathan in peasant societies: the Balkans and the borderlands of Austria-Hungary Pre-modern agriculture - return to a grain economy Lack of industrialization Corruption and reluctant foreign investors 14 Epilogue: economic disparity and alternative postwar economic regimes
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