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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EFFECTS ON IRELAND 845 tount on an adequate return, in rent, for money sunk in an A.D. 1776 astate. The stimulus to enterprise in the management of 1850. land, which was afforded by the prospect of gain, has been withdrawn, with the result that the gentry are more apt to devote themselves to remunerative forms of sport, and less inclined, than was once the case, to be pioneers in the work of agricultural improvement. 279. The changes, which tended to depress the landed Zhe de- interests in England, must necessarily have told with even ry greater effect upon the fortunes of such a purely agricultural pi “ country as Ireland. There were, moreover, special circum- Hatioaiile stances which aggravated the evils in the sister island, while there was no compensating advantage. Ireland had suffered from English jealousy, and her lot remained pitiable when she entered on an ill-assorted partnership. Her economic development had been subordinated for generations to that of England, and she had no great increase of prosperity when the two countries were united in 1800. It is very in Ire ond difficult to estimate the precise economic effects of that Act, Union, though the rapid increase of population renders it probable that the wealth was larger than before. In some respects there was improvement; the special legislation, which had been designed to promote English interests, had been aban- doned ; but, on the other hand, Irish manufacturers did not enjoy the extravagant encouragements which they had re- seived in 1784. Her lot was cast in with that of England, and the stream of her economic history has been mingled with that of the larger country, but the results worked out in different ways. Just because the industrial resources of for she Ireland were so little developed, she was able to obtain only 1k a comparatively small share in any of the prosperity which Lage of he English merchants and manufacturers enjoyed; on the other ey hand, she suffered with the agricultural interests in England, but much more severely. The chief gain which accrued to England, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, was the monopoly which she practically secured of the shipping of the warld. The United States was a real competitor ; but England obtained a 1 The subject is discussed in detail by Miss Murray, History of Commercial and Financial Relations between England and Ireland, 842.

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