The working paper contains data on the Top 100 British and German firms measured by employment in five different years. Our analysis and interpretation of the tables has been published in the journal Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2/2010, pp. 27-43: ?Big Business im 20. Jahrhundert: Die 100...

This Article contains different data (sales, market shares etc.) about the quantitative development of the West German department stores from 1948 to 2000 and their detailed description.

This paper contains data on the quantitative development of the West German retailing from 1949 until 2000 and a detailed description of the data. The data show explicitly the development of the West German Mass Consumption Society in this period.

This paper compares the industrial development of the two leading British and German woollen cloth regions in the late 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. It focuses on the implementation of the industrial capitalism?s paradigmatic new system of production, the factory system. At the...

In late 18th century Prussia, the conditions were laied down that were to form the basis of the economic upturn of the 19th century. This period of transition was marked by a break with the former ?mercantilist? or ?camerialist? system as it is termed in its specific German form of promotion of...