Enterprise and Technology

The German and British Steel Industries, 1897–1914

Ulrich Wengenroth (Technische Universität München), S.H. Tenison, Sarah Hanbury Tenison

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German

Cambridge University Press
20 December 1993

Economic history; Iron, steel & metals industries

This is a detailed account of the British and German steel industries' performance during three decades which were marked by radical changes in technology, in sources of raw materials, and in product markets. 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. Was this the result of massive entrepreneurial failure, or was it merely the by-product of evolutionary changes that bestowed automatic competitive advantage on latecomers such as the Germans? The author argues a detailed case for the latter scenario, and in doing so makes a major contribution to the debate on the 'Great Depression'.

By: Ulrich Wengenroth (Technische Universität München)
Translated by: S.H. Tenison, Sarah Hanbury Tenison
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9780521384254
ISBN 10: 0521384257
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 20 December 1993
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Enterprise and Technology: The German and British Steel Industries, 1897–1914

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