• 1. Introduction: problems with the German model; 2. Blending in: decentralized industrialization in Germany; 3. Repositioning organized capitalism into regions: autarkic industrial order in Germany; 4. The national context: 1871–1945; 5. Return to regions: the development of the decentralized industrial order since 1945; 6. Autarkic industrial order: 1945–1994; 7. The national context: 1945–1994; Notes; List of interviewees; Bibliography; Appendix: Maps.

"No brief review can do justice to the wealth of detail and the broad range of sources with which this thesis is supported, backed as it is by footnote discussions that add 50% to the length of the book....this very important contribution will make it impossible, at least in the English language literature, to neglect in future the role of the nonautarkic industries in the economic rise of Germany....Backed, as they are in this case, by rich detail and knowledgeable insight, they make an important contribution that no one in the future will be able to ignore." Sidney Pollard, American Journal of Sociology