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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586 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM A.D, 1689 the field. When at length the French power was broken "at Quebec, the colonists felt that they could hold their own »n an enormous continent; it was inconceivable that they should look again to anyone but themselves for protection against a foe. Hence the authority of the Mother Country was entirely sapped; it could only have been permanently maintained by a constant exercise of wisdom on the part of the Government at home, and by the highest tact on the part of its representatives in America. It was not from grievances caused by economic dependence, bub from the economic strength of the colonies, that the desire to sever their connection arose’, and it may be doubted whether any concessions in the way of Parliamentary representation would have rendered them content to remain in a condition »f political dependence, for all time. The economic treatment of the colonists by the Mother Country doubtless gave rise to some inconvenience; we cannot gauge its full extent. The principles on which ib rested however, were not in themselves unreasonable; no serious statesman would have expected a country to tolerate hostile competition on the part of its dependencies; but the principles were applied to the colonies in a manner which rendered the action of the Mother Country irritating to all sections of the community. The enactments for Ireland had been a blow to certain producers, and stamped out trades that were beginning to qourish ; but in America, the grievance was chiefly felt by the consumers, who had to pay very heavily for all their clothes and implements. The duties which were levied on their raw produce and fish, after the Restoration®, put them to considerable straits to find goods with which to purchase stores; and they had begun to manufacture as well as they could, because of their inability to buy. Had they been permitted to manufacture for the local demand, they might possibly have acquiesced in any legislation which prevented vithout British wrotection. \ This danger had been indicated by various writers. Compare Child's argument in support of the thesis * that New England is the most prejudicial plantation to this kingdom.” New Discourse of trade (1694), p. 212. Gee, Trads 1nd Navigation of Great Britain (1767), p. 173. 3 Rear Commercial Policy of Enalaud. 74.

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