Industrialists and consolidation in Central Europe (1867-1914) -- Costly nationalism: industrialists on the eve of 1914 -- Millionaires of Mitteleuropa -- The enemy's money: economic retaliation in the First World War -- Profiting from victory: property transfers in the shadow of the 1918...

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