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1 With cheap labour , raw material and a market at hand , India had advantages
for the development of a cotton industry , and some measure of protection would
no doubt have facilitated its establishment . But Lancashire needed the Indian ...
1 With cheap labour , raw material and a market at hand , India had advantages
for the development of a cotton industry , and some measure of protection would
no doubt have facilitated its establishment . But Lancashire needed the Indian ...
Page 461
After wheat , raw cotton was the most valuable of all British imports . But the
growth of cotton manufacturing in Europe , the United States , and more recently
in Japan , tended to advance more rapidly than the world production of fibre ...
After wheat , raw cotton was the most valuable of all British imports . But the
growth of cotton manufacturing in Europe , the United States , and more recently
in Japan , tended to advance more rapidly than the world production of fibre ...
Page 468
Hides , tin , kola - nuts and cotton followed . Between 1884 and 1894 the tonnage
of British shipping to West Africa had doubled ; ten years later it was doubled
again . As in East Africa , railways were the final answer to the fastdisappearing ...
Hides , tin , kola - nuts and cotton followed . Between 1884 and 1894 the tonnage
of British shipping to West Africa had doubled ; ten years later it was doubled
again . As in East Africa , railways were the final answer to the fastdisappearing ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Dual character of the Empire by 1870 | 11 |
CHAPTER II | 17 |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 948 pages |
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