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 WAR AND FLUCTUATIONS IN MARITIME INTERCOURSE 675 ancient rivals at once. They were unable, even when united, AD ine to do her serious damage’; the distant trades with India, puring the Africa and Brazil, and with the United States, remained Zevolition open, though they were of course attended with unusual risk. The chief privation was due to the fact that none of these distant trades served, as European trade might have done, to replenish the supplies of food in the years of dearth; for the Armed Neutrality cut us off from the areas of wheat on the Baltic®. The serious risk of not being self-sufficing in our food supply was clearly felt, though there were possibilities of importation even then, as the United States exported food stuffs® to Spain and Portugal. The most obvious result of the war was to give an unhealthy stimulus to English tillage, and to force on rapid changes in the rural districts, but it must have caused much uncertainty in various industries, and con- tributed to the distress of which we hear among operatives. With the Peace of Amiens in 1802, hopes were entertained of still greater developments, as the trade of the whole world was suddenly thrown open to England. The Dutch indeed were replaced in the possession of the colonies they had lost, but their marine had suffered severely, and the triumph of England over her old rival was at last complete. Great and after britain had attained to the same sort of maritime supremacy oe pace which Holland had secured in 1648, while the rapid develop- Re ment of the textile and iron manufactures gave her prosperity a prospective stability which Holland had never enjoyed in the same degree. English traders and manufacturers were, Jt: ‘Bq 4 "a ! Reinhard, Present state of the Commerce of Great Britain, 19, 46. ' Rose, Our Food Supply, in Monthly Review, March 1902, p. 87. 3 Yeats, Recent and Ewisting Commerce, 237. 4 Though the Treaty of Amiens restored to the Dutch most of the colonial yossessions they had lost, they never recovered the effects of this war, in which they were crushed by the hostility of their larger neighbours. Their exclusion from American trade by the English parliament in 1651 was felt as a grievance in the middle of the eighteenth century, <.e. 80 soon as their development in other directions was checked, and this later experience appears to have given rise to the opinion that the maintenance of the Navigation Acts inflicted serious injury, even after 1667 when the Dutch had been admitted as intermediaries in the German trade (Dumout, op. cit. vm. i. 48). The greatness of Holland, like that of Carthage, had been raised, not on the stable basis of land, but on the fluctuating basis of trade. “The manufacturers became merchants, and the merchants became agents and carriers; so that the solid sources 43._9

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