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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584 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM Country, a most important member of the body economic was lopped away. It was no longer possible to control this great branch of commerce so as to render it subservient to the promotion of English manufactures. The system had fallen to pieces and was at once discredited, since it seemed to have brought about a blow to British prestige. Economic The economic effects of the severance were far reaching; oy ances put the extent to which economic causes contributed to bring pinging about the revolt of the Americans has been exaggerated. Contemporary observers, and later historians, have been accustomed to insist on the commercial and industrial grievances of the colonists, as not only the occasion, but the principal reason of their determination to break with the Mother Country. There was no other obvious ground for their decision; they had no religious disabilities, and they had a large measure of political self-government; it seemed as if the secret of their dissatisfaction must have lain in the galling nature of the control exercised over their commerce and industry. That they had grievances is true, and for these the Parliamentary Colbertism of the Whigs is un- doubtedly to be blamed!; but Professor Ashley has shown that the pressure of these annoyances has been over-rated to some extent?. The colonists seem to have been not indisposed to accept the restrictions imposed on their trading out of regard to the economic welfare of the Mother Country; it is rather true that the increasing political cleavage rendered the economic situation strained. The colonists felt no duty to contribute from their meagre resources towards the main- tenance of any particular interest on the continent of Europe. Ltn The colonial sentiment of attachment to the Crown might the colonial Possibly have been stronger, if the English Revolution had lack of. failed ; for it certainly was not transferred to the Hanoverians Hano- and their belongings. There were many Englishmen who wolitics. regretted the fact that their country was so frequently em- broiled in continental struggles from which she had little to pain; the colonists were reluctant to sacrifice anything in A.D. 1689 —17786. and dis- credited tts principles. 1 See above, p. 481, and 586 below. 2 The Commercial Legislation of England and the American Colonies, 1660— 1760. in Surveys, 309—s35.

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