First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of essays is one of the few pieces of work on the overseas possessions of the Second Reich.

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This collection of essays is one of the few pieces of work on the overseas possessions of the Second Reich.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this book W. O. Henderson has brought together in English translation the journals of four foreign visitors who travelled in England and Scotland in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars, in a way which may be regarded as a sequel to his recent book on J. C. Fischer's diaries of industrial Britain.

Two of the travellers whose journals are included in this volume were Swiss industrialists. Hans Caspar Escher was both a professional architect and the founder of the famous engineering firm of Esther Wyss of Zurich, Bodmer, also of Zurich, lived in England for many...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Biographies of Frederick the Great generally emphasise the military and diplomatic events of his reign and neglect to discuss fully the significance of his economic policy.

In this series of essays Dr. Henderson deals with various aspects of the Prussian economy in Frederick the Great's reign. He describes Frederick's commercial policy, the reconstruction of Prussia after the Seven Years War and the state of the Prussian economy in 1780's, showing that "alone among his contemporaries Frederick left his country with a far more flourishing economy than it had been when he ascended...