The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 890892032

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-34137

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Author:: Waha, Raymund de http://d-nb.info/gnd/117560855

Title:: Die Nationalökonomie in Frankreich

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: Verlag von Ferdinand Enke

Year of publication:: 1910

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 540 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Buch II Die katholischen und verwandten Richtungen

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THE NAVIGATION ACT AND THE COLONIES 481 Many restrictions had been imposed to prevent the consump- A-D. 1689 sion of French goods by the inhabitants of Great Britain? ; and to English statesmen it would have seemed intolerable that the colonists should be left free to enrich the common enemy and her dependencies by their trade. Insistence on this policy involved far greater privation on the part of the colonists than was imposed upon Englishmen at home. There were various branches of trade, with the French plantations, which were particularly profitable to the northern colonies, not only as consumers but as producers, and these were also of advantage to the French plantations. Several of the provisions of the English system were devised with the object of interrupting these trading connections, since they were undoubtedly beneficial to the French islands and forded the American colonists opportunities for procuring commodities which were prohibited in England. The New England seamen were in a particularly favour- able position for prosecuting the cod-fishery. In the early part of the seventeenth century there had been some fear that they would absorb this industry, and render it unprofit- able for Englishmen to engage in it at all. It appears that in 1624 some question had been raised as to the rights of British seamen to make voyages for this purpose, or to cut fuel and dry their fish upon the American coast’, No definite steps engagedin were taken at that time to establish such rights for English- ound men on the Atlantic seaboard generally ; they were forced to /iherice. be content with their opportunities in N ewfoundland®, The colonists had excellent facilities for such fishing, as they found profitable, in their own waters. and were chiefly with the French ' As drawbacks were granted and large amounts of duty refunded when foreign goods were re-exported, the planters obtained German wines and other foreign manufactures on easier terms than the inhabitants of Great Britain. A. Smith, Wealth of Nations, p. 240; Ashley, Surveys, 319, 2 Compare the draft bill, which appears to have passed the Commons, but to have been dropped in the House of Lords. Hist. M88. Com. rv. Ap. 123, 8 The status of Newfoundland was long left undefined (Reeves, Law of Skipping and Navigation, 1792, p. 123), and the rights of the fishing fleets have riven rise to constant dispute. 4 They were practically excluded from taking fish to the English market by (2 C. TL, c. 18, § 5, and found their best market in other European countries or ‘he French West Indies. On other restrictions on fishing, see Hart quoted by Ashley, Surveys. 333.

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