The mid-1800s saw the first wave of what we now call economic globalisation. The worldwide economic integration advanced so quickly that in just a few decades it had a proportion that is comparable to that found today or even more. In this volume Cornelius Torp shows how great the challenge of globalisation became for the society and politics of the German Empire. Export politics became the focus of political conflicts and severely limited the government´s scope of action. This study combines the economic and historial perspectives to present new and fruitful results on the history of the German Empire.weiterlesen