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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occurred in the local distribution of industry can sometimes be explained
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controlled the administrative system The legislative method of fostering
82
measures supervise the quality of products and goods exposed for sale
85
estate management in the seventeenth century depended not on wool
100
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
109
The Recoinage of Silver On the accession of Elizabeth im
127
of the time chiefly took the form of reclaiming land from inundation
129
943
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ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN SOCIETY
161
large earnings to those woollen weavers who found employment but
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Public and Private Interest When the State undertakes
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wages should be assessed according to plenty or scarcity Parliament
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THE STUARTS
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The Encouragement of Shipping Burleigh began the systematic
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968
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The Plantations The enterprise of landed men in establishing
177
Gold Coins and Foreign Monetary Relations Current gold coins
179
Financial Embarrassments The Stuarts did not limit their
183
Regulated and Jointstock Companies The State frequently
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were chiefly of foreign issues and after the recoinage of silver it
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Company was founded to supersede the Hanse League in the Baltic trade
191
to the nation at that time was disadvantageous to the outports which were
201
Empirical Study of Phenomena Seventeenth century pam
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Parliamentary Control over Public Borrowing The Whigs
211
made deliberate efforts to foster native industries and granted patents
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organising the Bank of England deprived the Crown of the power
218
League were finally ousted from their privileged position and the Merchant
223
The Capitalist and Domestic Systems in the Clothing Trade Pains
227
The Reaction of Commerce on the Landed Interests
233
Machinery in the Textile Trades Neither the introduction
243
Cotton Spinning The cotton industry was the field where
247
clusive body through the first half of the eighteenth century The Turkey
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Banking Facilities The inadequacy for modern requirements
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lived attracted attention at the outbreak of cholera in 1831 in insanitary
277
Laissez Faire in Commerce The treatment of the recent economic
281
successful jointstock Company The enterprise was opened up by French
284
progress of improvement and enclosure put an end to subsistence farming
288
new power over the plantations in a jealous spirit as they were afraid
291
view of maintaining the quality of goods arrangements were made
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and political antagonism was roused against the Corn Laws as recast
300
was difficult to organise regulation in the suburbs or to prevent over
312
to alien merchants to invest their capital and to come and reside
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THE BEGINNINGS OF EXPANSION
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75
336
840
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trade underwent little change in organisation but was exposed to difficulties
341
the chief force at work Virginia and the West India Islands attracted
342
plantations was committed either to noble proprietors who had
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from time to time discussions which throw light on contemporary social
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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
419
The encouragement of the English landed interest reacted unfavourably
422
CURRENCY AND CREDIT
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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
456
Revolution Parliament became supreme over economic affairs but
458
rampant The malpractice of the officials and the impoverished condition
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361
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for the employment of shipping the statesmen of the day maintained their
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common
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organised under Elizabeth and was developed by the establishment of
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THE BEGINNING OF THE
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specially noticeable in Ireland after the Union for she could not take
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