Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The technology of late nineteenth-century steelmaking; 2. Expanding into the Slump: the railways as major customers of the new steel industry; 3. Surmounting the Slump: the individual strategies of firms; 4. Surmounting the Slump: collective strategies; 5. New processes and new markets; 6. Efficiency and capacity for innovation; Sources and bibliography; Index.

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This is a detailed account of the British and German steel industries' performances during three decades that were marked by radical changes in technology.

Reviews

"Tenison is to be congratulated on a felicitous translation." Journal of Interdisciplinary History "...an outstanding analysis of technological change in the German and British steel industries." Charles K. Hyde, Journal of Economic History "...Enterprise and Technology, by a Munich-based historian who has worked extensively in both German and British primary sources, breaks new ground in a variety of ways...it makes a real and important contribution to economic history and, in particular, to comparative national surveys of a detailed and searching kind." W.D. Rubinstein, Victorian Studies "Ulrich Wengenroth has produced a fine history of the two main steelmaking industries of Europe in the late nineteenth century...Wengenroth's clear and deeply researched book will be important reading for anyone working on the economic history of Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth century." Steven Webb, Central European History