The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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WEST INDIAN COTTON 225 expansion of the British industry during the next decade maintained the stimulus . The Levant could not increase its shipments and Lancashire began to look for new sources of supply.1 It turned first to South ...
WEST INDIAN COTTON 225 expansion of the British industry during the next decade maintained the stimulus . The Levant could not increase its shipments and Lancashire began to look for new sources of supply.1 It turned first to South ...
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THE COTTON DUTIES 227 aggregate production had been declining steadily since the opening years of the century . During the quinquennium 1816–20 it was not half what it had been in 1803. In the succeeding decade it was to be halved again ...
THE COTTON DUTIES 227 aggregate production had been declining steadily since the opening years of the century . During the quinquennium 1816–20 it was not half what it had been in 1803. In the succeeding decade it was to be halved again ...
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ADJUSTMENT TO THE CHANGED COTTON SUPPLY 775 1864 , the United States supplied only 3 per cent of England's cotton supplies and frantic efforts were made to obtain new supplies from Egypt and Turkey and even remote Pacific Islands .
ADJUSTMENT TO THE CHANGED COTTON SUPPLY 775 1864 , the United States supplied only 3 per cent of England's cotton supplies and frantic efforts were made to obtain new supplies from Egypt and Turkey and even remote Pacific Islands .
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2009 |
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