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27. Feb. 2022 · Thorsten B. Veblen’s book, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, published in the second year of the First World War. Although Imperial Germany was begun before the United States entered World War I, little in the book however relates to that particular conflict.
- New York
- 1st Edition
It aims to account for Germany’s industrial advance and high efficiency by natural causes, without drawing on the logic of manifest destiny, Providential nepotism, national genius, and the like. It is believed
26. Feb. 2022 · Thorsten B. Veblen’s book, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, published in the second year of the First World War. Although Imperial Germany was begun before the...
Having explained Germany's Industrial Revolution on these grounds, the author then undertakes to show that Germany's re-cent economic prosperity has not been because of, but in spite of, the Prussian-Imperial State policy. Except where the state has swept away barriers, state activity, he maintains, in regard to
Lewis Mumford called Imperial Germany "still the best picture of the residual barbarisms in German civilization; the soil out of which Nazism grew." This new edition is graced with a brilliant and insightful opening essay that is at once a commentary on Veblen's volume, and a statement of the historic status of the German economy and society.
- Paperback
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Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, published in the second year of the First World War, is certainly not his best-known work. His Theory of the Leisure Class and Theory of Business Enterprise take a place of pride in that respect. Whether the reader is familiar with his other works, this book is simply a treasure-chest of greatly ...
2. Feb. 2010 · Introductory : races and people -- The old order -- The dynastic state -- The case of England -- Imperial Germany -- The industrial revolution in Germany -- The economic policy of the imperial state -- The net gain -- Supplementary notes
