Agricultural Protection in Wilhelminian Germany: Forging an Empire with Pork and Rye

Steven B. Webb

The Journal of Economic History, 1982, vol. 42, issue 2, 309-326

Abstract: During the last two decades of the nineteenth century protection for agriculture became an important feature of the economic and political landscape in Germany. The large landlords, who specialized in arable agriculture, used their political power to get high levels of protection. Peasants, who specialized in animal husbandry, received lower but substantial and rising levels of protection. Material interest can thus help explain the peasants' political alliance with the landlords. Protection encouraged German agriculture to modernize along intensive lines, bringing to the countryside the social and political developments dreaded by the same conservative elites who promoted protection.

Date: 1982
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