Religion, colonising & trade

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Identifikator:: 1834114039

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-222204

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lucas, Charles Prestwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/101180705

Title:: Religion, colonising & trade

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 84 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. Summary

Collection:: Economics Books

SUMMARY 79 country, though not inside the British Empire, much mote developed, mote accessible than or at least equally accessible with any of the countries within the Empire, offering mote opportunities except for those who had the instincts of pioneers and almost equal opportunities for them also, and presenting a special attraction not only to the growing number of emigrants who came through from the continent of Europe to the Atlantic ports of Great Britain, but also very especially to citizens of the British Isles who, like the Irish, had no love for the British Government. The result was that for about the last half of the nine- teenth century the volume of emigration from the British Isles to the United States, either direct or through Canada, very greatly exceeded the total number of those who went to all the home-giving countries of the Empire put together. It has been abundantly seen? that in the beginnings of the Empire the planting of colonies was recom- mended as a means of providing employment and relieving distress. ‘The same motives, more solidly grounded, operated eatly in the nineteenth century, and have been operating more or less ever since, not least at the present day. The substitution of machinery in factories for cottage industries, which brought starvation to the handloom weavers of northern England and southern Scotland in the years between Watetloo and the Reform Bill, gave a great impetus to crossing the sea. ‘There must have been in these years mote widespread and acute distress than at any time in the sixteenth, seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. 1 See above, pp. 5, 6, 14, etc.

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