The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
In Modern Times
Part 1. The Mercantile System
4th Edition
- Author: W. Cunningham
- Date Published: February 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107672673
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The Growth of English Industry and Commerce, published in its first edition in 1882, was a large-scale economic study by the historian William Cunningham (1849–1919). The ambitious work ultimately grew to encompass two volumes, divided into three parts, and reissued over a period of more than forty years in several revised and expanded editions. This book contains the 1907 fourth edition of the first part of Volume II, dealing with the mercantile system. It covers the period of economic history from the beginning of the Elizabethan era to about the end of the eighteenth century.
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- Edition: 4th Edition
- Date Published: February 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107672673
- length: 648 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 36 x 152 mm
- weight: 0.94kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to the fourth edition
Introduction: economic differences between mediaeval and modern society
Part VI. The Mercantile System:
1. Of the mercantile system in general
Section 1. The Reign of Elizabeth:
2. Nationalism
3. The policy of Burleigh
4. The landed interest
5. The monied state
Section 2. The Stuarts:
6. The necessities of state
7. Privileged companies for commerce
8. The regulation of social and industrial conditions
9. The beginnings of expansion
10. Economic investigation and maxims
Section 3. Parliamentary Colbertism:
11. The English revolution
12. Public finance
13. Currency and credit
14. Parliamentary regulation of commercial development
15. Changes in the organisation and distribution of industry
16. Scripted proprietors and substantial tenants
17. The beginning of the end
Part VII. Laissez Faire:
1. The workshop of the world
2. The introduction of machinery in the textile trades
3. Aggravations of the evils of transition
4. Human welfare
5. Facilities for transport
Postscript
Appendix A. Wages assessments
Appendix B. Enclosure and depopulation in 1607
Appendix C. The action of James I and Charles I in regard to trade and the colonies
Appendix D. Colonial and commercial administration under Charles II
Appendix E. Complaints from the counties, 1650
Appendix F. Statistics of progress, with diagrams showing (i) the increase in revenue and of the charge on the debt, and (ii) the growth of population and of the charge for the poor-rate
Appendix G. Some difficulties in the interpretation of historical statistics
Bibliographical index
General index.
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