The Industrial Revolution, Capitalism and the Liberal State gradually settled in Western Europe during the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. This process began in England and France with the Industrial and French Revolutions. It the spread across the continent in times of Napoleon. Its rate of growth slowed with the Congress of Vienna in 1815. From 1848 onwards, it reached a new peak with the popular revolutions and their effects, wich swept through Europe giving birth to new states such as Germany and Italy, based on a new conception of economic, social and political structures…