The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 217
... INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE COLONIES , 1783–1822 THE publication of Smith's Wealth of Nations coincided exactly with the American Declaration of Independence . In the Wealth of Nations " fire engines " are mentioned but not steam ...
... INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE COLONIES , 1783–1822 THE publication of Smith's Wealth of Nations coincided exactly with the American Declaration of Independence . In the Wealth of Nations " fire engines " are mentioned but not steam ...
Page 237
... INDUSTRIAL CHANGE ON EXPORTS 237 all parts of the New Empire , including the China trade of the East India Company , for the years 1820-22 , came to rather less than one- third of her total export trade , or in round figures ...
... INDUSTRIAL CHANGE ON EXPORTS 237 all parts of the New Empire , including the China trade of the East India Company , for the years 1820-22 , came to rather less than one- third of her total export trade , or in round figures ...
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... Industrial Revolution created on the one hand unemployment and an industrial proletariat and on the other increased wealth in the hands of a few . There arose a class of enterprising , hard - headed promoters , who had scant reverence ...
... Industrial Revolution created on the one hand unemployment and an industrial proletariat and on the other increased wealth in the hands of a few . There arose a class of enterprising , hard - headed promoters , who had scant reverence ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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