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Brack, W. F., The Social and Economic History of Germany, 1888-1939 (New York, 1962).
Cameron, R. E., (ed.), Essays in French Economic History (Homewood, Ill., 1970). This is a most useful collection of essays.
Crafts, N. R. F., The Industrial Revolution and British Economic Growth (Oxford, 1985). This exceptionally influential book epitomizes the currently fashionable view of the ‘slow British Industrial Revolution’.
Crisp, O., Studies in the Russian Economy before 1914 (London, 1976).
Crouzet, F., ‘England and France in the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative Analysis of Two Economic Growths’, in R. M. Hartwell (ed.), The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England (London, 1967). A pioneering study which reveals how closely pre-Revolutionary France came to rivalling the capabilities of the world’s first industrial nation.
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1792-1815’, Journal of Economic History, 24 (1964).
Dhondt, J., and Bruwier, M., ‘The Low Countries, 1700-1914’ in C. M. Cipolla (ed.), The Fontana Economic History of Europe, iv: The Emergence of Industrial Societies (London, 1978), Pt. I. In general, the Fontana series is a useful and wide-ranging companion for the industrial history of most continental states.
Elbaum, E., and Lazonick, W., (eds.), The Decline of the British Economy (Oxford, 1986). A powerful explanation of the ‘British problem’ in terms of deficiencies in institutional systems.
Fischer, F., War of Illusions: German Policies from 1911 to 1914 (London, 1975), 517-22. This work famously revealed the importance of economic objectives among German war aims.
Gattrell, P., The Development of the Tsarist Economy, 1850-1917 (London, 1986).
Gerschenkron, A., Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge, Mass., 1962). This set of essays comprises one of the masterworks in comparative economic history. An essential conceptual tool.
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Gregory, P., ‘Economic Growth and Structural Change in Tsarist Russia: A Case of Modern Economic Growth?’, Soviet Studies, 23 (1972).
Hauser, H., Germany’s Commercial Grip on the World (London, 1917). A powerful, near-contemporary perspective on Germany’s pre-1914 development.
Kitchen, M., The Political Economy of Germany, 1815-1914 (London, 1978).
Landes, D. S., ‘The Old Bank, and the New: The Financial Revolution of the Nineteenth Century’, in F. Crouzet et al. (eds.), Essays in European Economic History (London,
1969); see also his exceptional hymn to technological change in the growth process, The Unbound Prometheus (Cambridge, 1969).
Laue, T. H. von, Why Lenin, Why Stalin? (New York, 1964). This author also produced a celebrated treatment of early Russian industrialization, Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia (New York, 1963), very much in the heroic vein.
McKay, J. P., Pioneers for Profit (Chicago, 1970). An altogether cooler assessment than von Laue.
Pollard, S., Peaceful Conquest (Oxford, 1981). Important argument for the transnational nature of the industrialization process.
Pounds, N., ‘Economic Growth in Germany’, in H. G. J. Aitken (ed.), The State and Economic Growth (New York, 1959).
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-(ed.), The Economics of the Take-Off into Self-Sustained
Growth (London, 1963). These works define key stages in the debate over the necessary preconditions for, and essential characteristics of, the industrial ‘take-off’.
Rudolph, R., Finance and Industrialization in Austria-Hungary (Cambridge, 1976).
Stearns, P. N., The Industrial Revolution in World History (Boulder, Col., 1993).
Supple, B. E., ‘The State and the Industrial Revolution’, in C. Cipolla (ed.), The Fontana Economic History of Europe, iii: The Industrial Revolution (London, 1973). A useful, and rare, attempt to define what the interventionist ‘state’ in economic affairs actually consists of.
Tipton, F. B., ‘National Consensus in German Economic History’, Central European History, 7 (1974).
- Regional Variations in the Industrial Development of
Germany during the Nineteenth Century (Middleton, Conn., 1976) features a theme of major importance.
Trebilcock, C., ‘ “Spin-off” in British Economic History’, Economic History Review, 22 (1969).
- ‘British Armaments and European Industrialization’,
Economic History Review, 26 (1973). The link between the demanding requirements and precise technology of armament manufacture and advances in engineering or metallurgy of wide civilian application is a pervasive feature of economic history in the i8th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
-The Industrialization of the Continental Powers (London, 1981)
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