The Decline of British Economic Power Since 1870This book was first published in 1981. |
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... American industry , is that there was a failure to replace the outmoded mule with the more efficient , capital - intensive ring spindle . Criticisms have also been levelled at the weaving section to the effect that its record in the ...
... American industry , is that there was a failure to replace the outmoded mule with the more efficient , capital - intensive ring spindle . Criticisms have also been levelled at the weaving section to the effect that its record in the ...
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... America and to a lesser extent Australia , New Zealand and South Africa . This vast movement of population , to which ... American capital invested abroad today.61 In seeking the causes of Britain's industrial retardation some historians ...
... America and to a lesser extent Australia , New Zealand and South Africa . This vast movement of population , to which ... American capital invested abroad today.61 In seeking the causes of Britain's industrial retardation some historians ...
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... American market would contract leading to a fall in foreign income which would , in turn , result in a reduction in British demand for primary products and a further decline in British exports . To the extent that recession reduced the ...
... American market would contract leading to a fall in foreign income which would , in turn , result in a reduction in British demand for primary products and a further decline in British exports . To the extent that recession reduced the ...
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... America's own exports of foodstuffs began to decline after 1900 with the result that Britain , obliged to seek alternative supplies , began to develop trade deficits with Argentina and Canada . The deficit with the USA was thereby ...
... America's own exports of foodstuffs began to decline after 1900 with the result that Britain , obliged to seek alternative supplies , began to develop trade deficits with Argentina and Canada . The deficit with the USA was thereby ...
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