Bøger af W.O. Henderson

A book first published in 1966.

Brings together the journals of four foreign visitors who travelled in England and Scotland in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars. This book shows how they were impressed by the way in which Britain had survived the Napoleon's Continental System and was now forging ahead to consolidate her position as the workshop of the world.

Dealing with various aspects of the Prussian economy in Frederick the Great's reign, this book describes his commercial policy, the reconstruction of Prussia after the Seven Years War and the state of the Prussian economy in 1780's. By surveying the careers of merchants, it also illustrates the role of the private entrepreneur in Prussia.

"Industrial Revolution on the Continent" was first published in 1961.

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