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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THE REVOLT OF THE COLONIES 583 It is also true that the forests in Ireland were ruthlessly AP Jin wasted, at a time when anxiety was keenly felt in regard _; their to the preservation of English woods. The English iron ghar manufacturers, suffering as they did from dearness of fuel’, were glad to have smelting carried on elsewhere, so long as they had advantages in working up the material provided for them. In 1696 and 1697 the duties were removed from bar iron imported into England from Ireland?; this led to a rapid destruction of the Irish forests®; though various measures were taken to prevent it, and to promote the planting of trees, they proved utterly ineffective. Not only so, but the exportation of timber to England was permitted on very easy terms, and as a result the forests of Ireland were absolutely ruined. As Ireland had at one time been specially well provided with the materials for building, fitting and provisioning ships®, this wanton waste prevented her from taking the part she might have otherwise done in the work of ship-building or in the shipping trades. In brief it may be said that all the encouragements, which were given in England, acted as positive discouragements to the develop- ment of Irish estates, and that she derived no countervailing advantage for the disabilities which were imposed upon her by the British svstem. XVII. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. 238. The Declaration of Independence has had many es results; for our purposes it is important to note that it tion of the recasioned a revulsion in the economic policy of this country. Tones ” Parliamentary Colbertism had aimed at controlling the de- Beieid) velopment of all the territories under British rule in such a system. way as to react on the prosperity of British industry. When ‘he thirteen colonies threw off the authority of the Mother 1 On the other hand, the glass manufacture in England had an exclusive right lo the exportation of glass; the prohibition of export hindered the development of in Irish trade, though the country was especially suited for it. until 1779. Newenham, op. cit. 104, 192. * 7 and 8 Wn. III. c. 10, § xvii., and 8 and 9 Win. IIL. c. 20, x. $ The manufacturers subsequently agitated for the admission of bar iron from America. See above, p. 526. t 2 Anne, ¢, 2 (Irish) ;: Newenham. 153-4. 8 Jb. 156.

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