Compare and Contrast the process of Industrialisation in France and Germany prior to 1914.

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Compare and Contrast the process of Industrialisation

in France and Germany prior to 1914.

The rate of industrialisation of both Germany and France was at a very similar level

for much of the nineteenth century. With a few differences in the speed towards the

beginning of the twentieth century. But it is important to signify when the industrialisation

process began and ended. I believe that if it had not been for the war in 1914 that Germany

would have continued in its massive upturn and surpassed even Britain in industrial

magnitude. This was when the process ended as man power and machinery was at use for

militancy. The process can be marked as starting at the beginning of the 1800s because

although Britain had begun earlier the French and Germans had started later and continued

upon a slow road to industrial compliance. I have used three yardsticks by which to measure

the industrial development of the two countries Germany and France. The beginnings of the

industrial age, the production levels of iron, coal and steel in