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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Page 773
... supply of cotton . More obvious than the insecurity of England's main supplies was their inadequacy . The rapid increase in production in the ' fifties put a strain on the customary sources of supply of many of Britain's most important ...
... supply of cotton . More obvious than the insecurity of England's main supplies was their inadequacy . The rapid increase in production in the ' fifties put a strain on the customary sources of supply of many of Britain's most important ...
Page 774
... supplies from India whenever necessary . The improvements in transport made , in fact , little change in Indian conditions of supply , and over the whole period the proportion of raw materials which in normal times Great Britain drew ...
... supplies from India whenever necessary . The improvements in transport made , in fact , little change in Indian conditions of supply , and over the whole period the proportion of raw materials which in normal times Great Britain drew ...
Page 775
... 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 . But to make up the bulk of the ...
... 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 . But to make up the bulk of the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
The Conflict with Revolutionary France 17931802 | 36 |
The Struggle with Napoleon 18031815 | 83 |
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