[Cronos]

Uniting already densly populated German states without the open frontier and enlimited resources like in America is not the expanding in the sense we talked about.

It is -- a new state created, new industries, new economies of scale, new exploration. Pretty similar to America's expansion -- similar but different. The point was that America and Germany grew in the late 1800s not because they were closed, tariff based economies but because they were growing, creating new opportunities. In comparison the UK had pretty much peaked.

[A. Pole]

Pretty similar to America's expansion -- similar but different.

Similar in a sense that both Germany and America used the protectionist policies at that time. England did otherwise and went down.