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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180 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM complained bitterly of the disadvantages under which they carried on their business’. This was exactly a case where it might have been expected that Government would interfere bo prevent the hostile competition of the colonies with an established home industry; but no steps were taken in the matter. American shipbuilding was allowed to develop® under the stimulus it received from the opportunity of em- ployment in English trade. This is all the more surprising as there would obviously have been special difficulty in obtaining the use of colonial ships for the purposes of naval warfare or transport. In 1707 Parliament abandoned any attempt to press colonial seamen for the navy’; the de- velopment of shipbuilding in the plantations did but little for the increase of the power of England on the seas, and colonial shipping was sometimes employed in a manner that was detrimental to English commerce®. The advantage which accrued to the shipping industries in the northern colonies, doubtless did much to allay the resentment that might otherwise have been felt at the British provisions of the Navigation Act. The only serious dif tof ficulty appears to have arisen in connection with the Colonial attempts to bring the plantations into line with the Whig rourse policy of avoiding all commercial intercourse with France. A.D. 1689 —1776. in New England. built for the Coale and other Trade, which were of great use to his Majestie in time of Warr and a Nursery for able Seamen; but by the Discouragement that Trade hath ever since laid under, occasioned chiefely by the freedome which foreigne Shipps and Vessels, bought and brought inte this Kingdome, have enjoyed in the Coale and other Inland Trade, equall to that of English built Shipps, the Merchants, Owners, and others, have not beene able to build as formerly, which hath caused many of our English Shippwrights, Calkers, and Seamen, to seeke their Imployments abroad, whereby the Building trade is not onely wholly lost in severall of the aforementioned places, and in others very much decayed, but alsoe the Importation of Timber, Plank, Hemp, Pitch, Tarr, Iron, Masts, Canvas, and other Commodities used in building and fitting out Shipps, are greatly lessened, to the apparent prejudice of his Majestyes Customs, the losse of a considerable Imployment for Shipping, and consequently of all other Trades depending thereupon, to the too great Advantage of Forreigne Nations.” 1 Ashley, Surveys, 313. 2 Tord, Industrial Experiments, 105: Weeden. Economic and Social History. I. 643. 8 6 Anne, c. 87, § 9. 4 Compare the privateering in the Indian Ocean. See above, p. 271. King James II., who was particularly interested in maintaining the East Indian trade, taqued a proclamation in 1688 against American privateers. Brit. Mus. 21. h. 3 (24),

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