The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1940 - Commonwealth countries |
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... industrial white population can require in the North . For the woollens , both fine and coarse , the United States were decidedly the best of all markets . Although they grew so much of the cotton , and had a cotton industry of their ...
... industrial white population can require in the North . For the woollens , both fine and coarse , the United States were decidedly the best of all markets . Although they grew so much of the cotton , and had a cotton industry of their ...
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... industry came from sources beyond England's political control which might easily be disabled : in par- ticular they ... industries ; in 1836 , for example , Leeds had thirty - nine flax - spinning factories fully employed ; in 1860 ...
... industry came from sources beyond England's political control which might easily be disabled : in par- ticular they ... industries ; in 1836 , for example , Leeds had thirty - nine flax - spinning factories fully employed ; in 1860 ...
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... industry , their relative price tended to increase . Part of their loans they spent on railway construction and on ... industry which increased the productivity of British labour . By 1870 Britain had become an industrial state , her ...
... industry , their relative price tended to increase . Part of their loans they spent on railway construction and on ... industry which increased the productivity of British labour . By 1870 Britain had become an industrial state , her ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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