The Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Volume 1First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Massachusetts and by the Scotch colonists in New Jersey The central | 7 |
the formation of capital rendered it possible to give effect to these schemes | 8 |
OF THE MERCANTILE SYSTEM IN GENERAL | 13 |
THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH | 20 |
choice of employments so as to favour rural districts and corporate towns | 26 |
wages should be assessed according to plenty or scarcity Parliament | 44 |
relieving the poor and dealing with vagrants came to be discharged by civil | 52 |
liability and these were largely used for transoceanic shipping The trade | 275 |
the African trade Several Companies were organised in succession under | 278 |
Laissez Faire in Commerce The treatment of the recent economic | 281 |
THE REGULATION OF SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS | 285 |
was difficult to organise regulation in the suburbs or to prevent over | 312 |
endeavoured to regulate the whole economic life of the country | 322 |
to alien merchants to invest their capital and to come and reside | 324 |
THE BEGINNINGS OF EXPANSION | 331 |
overcome The granting of monopolies began with mining and metallurgical | 53 |
measures supervise the quality of products and goods exposed for sale | 85 |
estate management in the seventeenth century depended not on wool | 100 |
chiefly practised for subsistence but with a view to the market so that | 109 |
plantations was the special characteristic of English colonisation | 119 |
monetary science and led to a clearer apprehension of the cause of | 161 |
large earnings to those woollen weavers who found employment but | 164 |
The Statute of Artificers In Elizabeths reign the rules | 167 |
Armaments and the Useful Metals The policy pursued by | 170 |
The Encouragement of Shipping Burleigh began the systematic | 171 |
Gold Coins and Foreign Monetary Relations Current gold coins | 179 |
contrast between the high aims of the Stuarts and the notorious corruption | 180 |
of the Crown The Portuguese marriage and the treaty with Spain | 186 |
The Colonial Policy of the Crown Charles I gave cordial | 204 |
English development was affected by the conscious imitation of continental | 206 |
phleteers treated economic questions according to empirical methods | 207 |
controlled the administrative system The legislative method of fostering | 211 |
made deliberate efforts to foster native industries and granted patents | 212 |
PRIVILEGED COMPANIES FOR COMMERCE | 214 |
approval to schemes for colonisation but like his father he was anxious | 216 |
which advanced money on more favourable terms than the goldsmiths | 217 |
rampant The malpractice of the officials and the impoverished condition | 222 |
League were finally ousted from their privileged position and the Merchant | 223 |
occurred in the local distribution of industry can sometimes be explained | 227 |
Company was founded to supersede the Hanse League in the Baltic trade | 234 |
to the nation at that time was disadvantageous to the outports which were | 241 |
from time to time discussions which throw light on contemporary social | 242 |
Cotton Spinning The cotton industry was the field where | 247 |
clusive body through the first half of the eighteenth century The Turkey | 250 |
machines for carding and scribbling and these had been generally adopted | 253 |
The War and Fluctuations in Maritime Intercourse The | 256 |
frequent temptation to overtrading while Pitt used his power of borrowing | 258 |
had been successful in both its objects for many years that of 1773 | 264 |
The Humanitarians and Robert Owen English public opinion | 266 |
the chief force at work Virginia and the West India Islands attracted | 342 |
in Ireland was similar but the conditions were very different as the country | 362 |
THE LANDED INTEREST | 372 |
and other countries seemed to be shown by the balance of trade which | 402 |
new power over the plantations in a jealous spirit as they were afraid | 413 |
PUBLIC FINANCE | 419 |
The encouragement of the English landed interest reacted unfavourably | 422 |
CURRENCY AND CREDIT | 431 |
and employment of Capital and proved as had been anticipated to | 442 |
formation of capital there The Bank of Scotland issued 1 notes to | 456 |
organised under Elizabeth and was developed by the establishment of | 490 |
view of maintaining the quality of goods arrangements were made | 510 |
stimulated the coal trade which had been growing through the demand | 526 |
communication had often been projected for conveying corn and the | 532 |
SPIRITED PROPRIETORS AND SUBSTANTIAL TENANTS | 540 |
progress of improvement and enclosure put an end to subsistence farming | 552 |
THE BEGINNING OF THE | 583 |
involved the decay of cottage employment and increased the differentiation | 616 |
evitable difficulties of transition were aggravated by the fluctuations of trade | 668 |
Most of the evils which were brought to light had attached to cottage | 774 |
handloom weavers was not treated as a subject for State interference | 798 |
lived attracted attention at the outbreak of cholera in 1831 in insanitary | 806 |
the credit system was brought out by the crisis of 1825 which led | 822 |
commerce gave rise to an agitation by London merchants against the system | 829 |
and political antagonism was roused against the Corn Laws as recast | 844 |
the same problems but it was less fitted to grapple with them from | 883 |
made by Justices of the Peace | 894 |
The Action of James I and Charles I in regard to Trade and | 900 |
Colonial and Commercial Administration under Charles II p 200 | 913 |
revenue and of the charge on the debt and ii the growth of population | 928 |
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