The path of economic development from the late nineteenth century to the economic miracle

2017 ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
Penelope Francks
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

“Horn of Plenty”: The Globalization of Mediterranean Horticulture and the Economic Development of Southern Europe, 1880–1930

1999 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Morilla Critz ◽  
Alan L. Olmstead ◽  
Paul W. Rhode
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Agricultural Economies

During the late nineteenth century, competition from cheap American grains undermined agricultural economies across Europe. This article investigates how similar forces of globalization in the production of Mediterranean fruits and nuts dampened economic prospects across southern Europe and in some cases contributed to outright economic and political crises.

Cultivating Territorial Sovereignty in the Western Desert

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Western Desert ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Territorial Sovereignty ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Chapter 4 explores the relationship between territoriality and economic development in late-nineteenth-century Egypt. It argues that this period witnessed a raft of projects aimed at what, in the French colonial context, was called mise en valeur—the reclamation of barren, unprofitable land. After surveying a number of such projects undertaken under the auspices of the Egyptian government, the chapter then turns its attention to the Khedive’s own grand development schemes in the Egyptian West. Foremost among these was the Maryut Railway, which he intended to run from the outskirts of Alexandria all the way to the Libyan border. The Maryut Railway functioned as one of several projects through which the Khedive sought to transform the Egyptian West into a more personalized realm of territorial sovereignty. In this regard, the Khedive strove to outdo the British Residency at its own logic of “economism” as a doctrine of ruling legitimacy.

scholarly journals Distribution and types of windmills in Pomerania across the 19th century in the light of cartographic sources

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Maciej Prarat
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Very High

Abstract The aim of this text is to evaluate the distribution of windmills in Pomerania, an area which stretches from Gdańsk to Toruń, over the period of the nineteenth century. The basic research method was to analyse various maps from both the early nineteenth century and the late nineteenth century. The results made it possible to state that the total number windmills increased by a factor of three, and that this referred mainly to cereal mills. The number of vertical windmills with rotating caps increased at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the number of drainage windmills remained unchanged. The very high demand for wind energy was a result of significant economic development within the Prussian partition in the second half of the nineteenth century. Cartographic sources allowed this phenomenon to be verified in the most complete way.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
Casey Marina Lurtz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Rural Economies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Future Economic Development ◽  
State Projects

This conclusion illustrates how the book has sought to advance a history of the export boom that understands late nineteenth century globalization through the activities of all those involved in production. Pulling the history of the Soconusco’s export economy through the Mexican Revolution and into the present, it illustrates how this place provides a model for understanding the transformation of rural economies through engagement rather than imposition. State projects for modernization and consolidation manifested on a timeline and in a manner that had much more to do with local need than the desires of higher authorities. This stilted, sometimes stumbling manner of building new legal and commercial institutions may have impeded future economic development. Yet as the nineteenth century slipped into the twentieth, it facilitated the continued involvement of a large swath of local society in export production.

scholarly journals Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 710-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Kersting ◽  
Iris Wohnsiedler ◽  
Nikolaus Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Empirical Tests

We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber’s Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century century Prussia we reject Weber’s suggestion that Protestantism mattered due to an “ascetic compulsion to save.” Moreover, we find that income levels, savings, and literacy rates differed between Germans and Poles, not between Protestants and Catholics, using pooled OLS and IV regressions. We suggest that this result is due to anti-Polish discrimination.

Money, Prices, and Economic Development in India, 1861–1895

1979 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Adams ◽  
Robert Craig West
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Silver Standard ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth

In the late nineteenth century, when most of the world was on a gold standard, India was on a silver standard. Silver was used for coins, held in hoards, and worn as jewelry. Regression analysis confirms a positive relationship between prices and the money supply, and inverse relationships between prices and rainfall and prices and the combined influences of railroads and commercialization. The. influx of silver was not correlated with the money supply, apparently because hoarding and dishoarding by peasants and others caused the amount of money in active circulation to vary.

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