The Growth of English Industry and Commerce: In Modern Times, Volume 2,Partie 1

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University Press, 1925
 

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wages should be assessed according to plenty or scarcity Parliament
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relieving the poor and dealing with vagrants came to be discharged by civil
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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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made deliberate efforts to foster native industries and granted patents
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THE LANDED INTEREST
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estate management in the seventeenth century depended not on wool
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B Enclosure and Depopulation in 1607 pp 102
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communication had often been projected for conveying corn and the
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chiefly practised for subsistence but with a view to the market so that
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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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were chiefly of foreign issues and after the recoinage of silver it
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monetary science and led to a clearer apprehension of the cause of
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National Ambition for Maritime Power The rising patriotic
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population could be absorbed criminals and prisoners of war were trans
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Armaments and the Useful Metals The policy pursued by
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The Regulation of the Corn Trade In regulating the corn trade
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The Plantations The enterprise of landed men in establishing
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Moneyed Men Banking business was being regularly practised by English
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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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English development was affected by the conscious imitation of continental
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Parliament as Supreme Judge of Public Interest At
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controlled the administrative system The legislative method of fostering
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PRIVILEGED COMPANIES FOR COMMERCE
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successful jointstock Company The enterprise was opened up by French
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Misunderstandings in regard to Credit The nature and con
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The National Debt and the Sinking Fund Much of the fiscal
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Economic Experts The reluctance of Parliament to attempt
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The Humanitarians and Robert Owen English public opinion
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Most of the evils which were brought to light had attached to cottage
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liability and these were largely used for transoceanic shipping The trade
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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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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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trade underwent little change in organisation but was exposed to difficulties
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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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new power over the plantations in a jealous spirit as they were afraid
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PUBLIC FINANCE
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CURRENCY AND CREDIT
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ii Proceedings of the Council of Trade
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ditions of Credit were imperfectly recognised Business assumed a specu
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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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for the employment of shipping the statesmen of the day maintained their
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revenue and of the charge on the debt and ii the growth of population
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organised under Elizabeth and was developed by the establishment of
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industry was the prime object of economic policy during the period of Whig
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