A Short History of English Commerce and IndustryE. Arnold, 1900 - 252 strani |
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... wool . understand , therefore , the life of rural England during this period is , " he continues , " to understand nine - tenths of its economic activity . " In the present chapter we shall attempt to gain some acquaintance with the ...
... wool . understand , therefore , the life of rural England during this period is , " he continues , " to understand nine - tenths of its economic activity . " In the present chapter we shall attempt to gain some acquaintance with the ...
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... wool and leather exported , which was paid by all , and the " new custom " taken in addition from foreigners on imports and exports of wool and other merchandise , were fixed in amount , and were collected in the ports , to which the ...
... wool and leather exported , which was paid by all , and the " new custom " taken in addition from foreigners on imports and exports of wool and other merchandise , were fixed in amount , and were collected in the ports , to which the ...
Stran 75
... wool made it possible to transmit to Italy large Papal revenues without draining England of the precious metals . The important crop of wool was seized at least on one occasion by the King as a forcible means of raising the funds he ...
... wool made it possible to transmit to Italy large Papal revenues without draining England of the precious metals . The important crop of wool was seized at least on one occasion by the King as a forcible means of raising the funds he ...
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... wool and cloth has a twofold interest ; it explains the origin of the wealth of England , and it illustrates , with peculiar clearness , the development of industry . " 66 8. Thus the foreign policy of Edward III . had an economic side ...
... wool and cloth has a twofold interest ; it explains the origin of the wealth of England , and it illustrates , with peculiar clearness , the development of industry . " 66 8. Thus the foreign policy of Edward III . had an economic side ...
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... wool was forbidden expressly to encourage the manufacture of cloth . A little later 1258 not merely was the export of wool arrested , but the importation of cloth was stopped . This re- 1271 striction , however , was intended to serve ...
... wool was forbidden expressly to encourage the manufacture of cloth . A little later 1258 not merely was the export of wool arrested , but the importation of cloth was stopped . This re- 1271 striction , however , was intended to serve ...
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Adam Smith afterwards agricultural apprentices arable Assistant Master Black Death Book bullionists caused chapter cloth coin colonial commercial common Company convertible husbandry corn Corn Laws craftsmen Crown 8vo customs demesne districts domestic system duties earlier economic history Edward III eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan England English export fact factory system favoured fifteenth followed foreign France Free Trade fresh gold growth Henry Henry VIII historian important inclosures increase influence interests journeymen King labour land later less London lord machinery manor manorial system manufacture ment Mercantile System merchant gild monopoly motive-power Navigation Act Norman Conquest passed pasture payment period political possessed practice privileges provisions recoinage regulation restrictions revenue Ricardo Roman Saxon School secure shillings silver sixteenth century sought Statute Statutes of Labourers tenants tillage tion towns village villeins wages wealth Wealth of Nations weavers wool woollen industry
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Stran 3 - Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth, and on the other, and more important side, a part of the study of man. For man's character has been moulded by his everyday work, and the material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and the two great forming agencies of the world's history have been the religious and the economic.
Stran 173 - For if we only behold the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we will rather accompt him a mad man than a husbandman: but when we consider his labours in the harvest which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful encrease of his actions.
Stran 118 - The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken up ; old things were passing away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying ; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble into ruins ; and all the forms, desires, beliefs, convictions of the old world were passing away, never to return.
Stran 3 - Political Economy or economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of well-being. Thus it is on the one side a study of wealth; and on the other, and more important side, a part of the study of man.
Stran 74 - And further, it is commanded that highways leading from one market town to another shall be enlarged, whereas bushes, woods, or dykes be, so that there be neither dyke, tree, nor bush whereby a man may lurk to do hurt within two hundred foot of the one side and two hundred foot on the other side of the way...
Stran 118 - And now it is all gone — like an unsubstantial pageant faded ; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge.
Stran 209 - In all cases in which Trade Unions arose, the great bulk of the workers had ceased to be independent producers, themselves controlling the processes, and owning the materials and the product of their labour, and had passed into the condition of lifelong wage-earners, possessing neither the instruments, of production nor the commodity in its finished...
Stran 223 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Stran 4 - ... have nowhere been displaced from the front rank even for a time ; and they have nearly always been more important than all others put together. Religious motives are more intense than economic ; but their direct action seldom extends over so large a part of life.
Stran 164 - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. National animosity at that particular time aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom would have recommended, the diminution of the naval power of Holland, the only naval power which could endanger the security of England.