The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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500 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM machinery, which involved the use of water or steam power, when the triumph of capitalism became complete. 226. While this revolution was proceeding gradually and silently, other important changes were occurring in con- nection with the industrial life of the country, and the signs Te a of them were patent to the most casual observer. A very which noticeable alteration was taking place in the local distribu- Sponges “* tion of industry. The Eastern Counties, which had been so a of important in the later middle ages, lost ground, while the industry West Riding of Yorkshire was steadily developing. The iron-works of Sussex died out altogether, while Shropshire and Linlithgowshire made startling advances. It must suffice to indicate the general trend of the migration, and to point out that there is a considerable mass of material available, for those who are interested in the question, as to the progress or decay of particular industries in particular areas. Harri- son and Leland have described England, as it was in the latter part of Elizabeth’s reign ; in the charming essays, which Fuller prefaced to his record of the Worthies of the various counties of England, we find many details as to the resources and industries of each in turn. Defoe’s Tour, with the additions by Richardson, goes over much of the same ground at later dates?; and the writings of Arthur Young, and of other contemporary tourists, carry the information to another era. Again and again, in perusing these books, we find evidence of obvious decadence in some parts of the country, and of marked progress in others. i il In many cases these alterations in the distribution of saplained industry can be accounted for by physical reasons. The Ea exhaustion of the fuel in Sussex rendered it impossible to continue the furnaces there; and the trade naturally shifted bo districts where coal and iron were found in conjunction, so soon as the means for utilising mineral fuel became available, In other cases, an industry was attracted to a district where advantage could be taken of water power? and facilities for 1 Defoe, in 1724, speaks of Bocking and Braintree as flourishing, but Richardson in the 1748 edition of Defoe’s Tour (1. 118) gives a very different account. The variations in the prosperity of local industries is curious; in 1724 the Guildford rade had revived (Tour, 1724, 1. 87), but that at Cranbrook in Kent was extinct. 2 The Eastern Counties were at a disadvantage in this respect; the West of England was much better provided with fulling mills. A.D. 1689 —1776.

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