The Growth of English Industry and Commerce

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CUP Archive, 1938
 

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INTRODUCTION
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lution which began in England entails a complete alteration of social
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National Ambition for Maritime Power The rising patriotic
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THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH
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new processes nor of new implements
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choice of employments so as to favour rural districts and corporate towns
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stimulated the coal trade which had been growing through the demand
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measures supervise the quality of products and goods exposed for sale
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League were finally ousted from their privileged position and the Merchant
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The Reaction of Commerce on the Landed Interests
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The Revolt of the Colonies The severance of the American
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Factories and Cottage Industries The concentration of labour
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revolution first occurred through the inventions which Arkwright rendered
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phleteers treated economic questions according to empirical methods
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Company were made as separate ventures though each was on a common
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The War and Fluctuations in Maritime Intercourse The
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liability and these were largely used for transoceanic shipping The trade
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estate management in the seventeenth century depended not on wool
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overcome The granting of monopolies began with mining and metallurgical
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occurred in the local distribution of industry can sometimes be explained
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chiefly practised for subsistence but with a view to the market so that
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was a phase in the progress of Capitalism and led to increased division
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communication had often been projected for conveying corn and the
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The Recoinage of Silver On the accession of Elizabeth
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of the time chiefly took the form of reclaiming land from inundation
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950
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were habitually taken to open and retain foreign markets for English cloth
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ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN SOCIETY
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large earnings to those woollen weavers who found employment but
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population could be absorbed criminals and prisoners of war were trans
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The Statute of Artificers In Elizabeths reign the rules
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The Assessment of Wages With the view of providing that
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THE STUARTS
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The Introduction of New Industries from Abroad Burleigh
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GENERAL INDEX
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The Plantations The enterprise of landed men in establishing
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Gold Coins and Foreign Monetary Relations Current gold coins
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Financial Embarrassments The Stuarts did not limit their
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of the Crown The Portuguese marriage and the treaty with Spain
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Local Connections The existence of Companies even if beneficial
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contrast between the high aims of the Stuarts and the notorious corruption
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the African trade Several Companies were organised in succession under
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English development was affected by the conscious imitation of continental
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plantations was the special characteristic of English colonisation
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controlled the administrative system The legislative method of fostering
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made deliberate efforts to foster native industries and granted patents
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PRIVILEGED COMPANIES FOR COMMERCE
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Differentiation of an Employing Class in other Trades
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The National Debt and the Sinking Fund Much of the fiscal
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evitable difficulties of transition were aggravated by the fluctuations of trade
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The Combination Laws The working classes not only failed
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The Humanitarians and Robert Owen English public opinion
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the progress of the country appeared to be given by the prosperity
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differentiation of an employing class occurred in the spinning trade and
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successful jointstock Company The enterprise was opened up by French
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Laissez Faire in Commerce The treatment of the recent economic
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THE REGULATION OF SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS
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progress of improvement and enclosure put an end to subsistence farming
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new power over the plantations in a jealous spirit as they were afraid
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involved the decay of cottage employment and increased the differentiation
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view of maintaining the quality of goods arrangements were made
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was difficult to organise regulation in the suburbs or to prevent over
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to alien merchants to invest their capital and to come and reside
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THE BEGINNINGS OF EXPANSION
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the chief force at work Virginia and the West India Islands attracted
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plantations was committed either to noble proprietors who had
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approval to schemes for colonisation but like his father he was anxious
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THE LANDED INTEREST
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and other countries seemed to be shown by the balance of trade which
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PUBLIC FINANCE
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CURRENCY AND CREDIT
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which advanced money on more favourable terms than the goldsmiths
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formation of capital there The Bank of Scotland issued 1 notes to
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Revolution Parliament became supreme over economic affairs but
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rampant The malpractice of the officials and the impoverished condition
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for the employment of shipping the statesmen of the day maintained their
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organised under Elizabeth and was developed by the establishment of
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incursion gave opportunities for planting new industries which Parliament
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trade underwent little change in organisation but was exposed to difficulties
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specially noticeable in Ireland after the Union for she could not take
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