Industrialization and the rise of nationalism were the two major developments in Germany before the World War I. A … novel county-level dataset reveals that industrialization and nationalism measured by membership in the "Kriegervereine …, I find strong evidence for a causal impact of industrialization on nationalism. In order to detect possible mechanisms …

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …