Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1865-1895 (repost)
Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1865-1895 by Ulrich Wengenroth
English | March 19, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0521103339 | 308 pages | PDF | 8.9 Mb
English | March 19, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0521103339 | 308 pages | PDF | 8.9 Mb
This is a detailed account of the British and German steel industries' performance during three decades that were marked by dramatic change. Relying on governmental and corporate archives as well as on the contemporary trade literature, Professor Wengenroth has drawn a meticulous picture of how managements in the two countries met the strategic problems raised by these changes.
The author does not however merely trace technological developments; rather, he uses them as a backdrop for a contribution to the long-running debate on Britain's relative industrial decline in the late nineteenth century.