Industry in England: Historical OutlinesMethuen & Company, 1896 - 479 pages |
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acres Adam Smith Agric agricultural labourer Arthur Young artisans Ashley Britain British Commerce capitalist cause chiefly classes cloth coal colonies common Conquest Const corn Corn Laws cottars cotton course Craik Crown 8vo Cunningham districts Domesday Econ Edition Edward eighteenth century employers enclosures England English Industry export fact Factory System farmers farms fifteenth century foreign France French Froude gilds Growth of Industry Henry VIII Hist History important improvements increase Industrial Revolution influence interest king land landowners large number Lecky Leone Levi London lord machinery manor manorial system manufactures merchants modern monopoly nation Norman Norman Conquest parish Parliament pauperism period political Poor Law population prosperity Prothero Reform reign remarks rent Rogers Roman Saxon seventeenth Six Centuries social Stubbs tenants tion towns Toynbee village villeinage villeins wages wealth Wealth of Nations weavers wool woollen workmen
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