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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SHIPBUILDING, NAVAL STORES AND SEAMANSHIP 483 the American colonies, as they did on Ireland’. Several of 4D: 1689 the colonial legislatures appear to have given a practical consent to the system in principle, and it did not in all probability cause any serious injury to individuals. England was a convenient market for colonial produce, even- though better prices might often have been obtained, if the planters had been free to send their tobacco to any European port; while the large landed resources of America offered aftractive openings to those who were debarred from manufacturing? The rules which were imposed, from antagonism to the gave rise co . z ’ . comsider- French, were much more serious, and it was this side of aie the restrictions on their commerce, which raised a sense of ¥"*¢?%"* grievance among the colonists. They showed themselves ready, on the whole, to refrain from doing any economic injury to England herself, but they were not content to let their affairs be ruled in accordance with political antagonisms in which they did not feel themselves directly concerned. 223. While so much increased attention was given to While pro- discriminating between the commodities in which traffic was Tiding Jor carried on, the traditional methods of encouraging maritime er power were not neglected, though they were modified on the lines which the eighteenth century specially favoured. The fishing trades had always been regarded as the great the states- . . menofthe school of seamanship; the effort to promote them by in- day main- sisting on the observance of fish days had been abandoned, aimed then but there were attempts to accomplish the same result, both /ing by the formation of companies which were wealthy enough to undertake the business on a large scale, and by the granting of bounties. The Company of the Royal Fishery of England was never very prosperous; it soon expended its original capital, and the subscribers of a second stock, in 1683, were equally unfortunate. A similar attempt was made in 1750, the special object being to gain the white herring fishery from the Dutch; the cod-fishing was also for Jenny to be attempted. It was regarded as a political step of the and co first importance, and had been undertaken in response to an appeal made in the King’s speech in 1749, Frequent payments " See above, p. 376; also below, pp. 525 and 580. 3 See below, p. 585. 8 Macpherson, 11. 584. 31-2 An

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