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... Medieval and Modern History in the University of Oxford PUBUSKERS Longor TOBORGEN ALLER'S M TED- RUSKIN BOUSCA OHIO STATE LONDON : GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD . RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET , W.C. THE RIVERSIDE PRESS Limited , EDINBURGH ...
... Medieval and Modern History in the University of Oxford PUBUSKERS Longor TOBORGEN ALLER'S M TED- RUSKIN BOUSCA OHIO STATE LONDON : GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD . RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET , W.C. THE RIVERSIDE PRESS Limited , EDINBURGH ...
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... medieval character of politics and government . This chapter is at best only suggestive of the rich field for investigation open to the student . However , all the principal features have been emphasised , and the student who has ...
... medieval character of politics and government . This chapter is at best only suggestive of the rich field for investigation open to the student . However , all the principal features have been emphasised , and the student who has ...
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... medieval England , quiet , primeval , and undisturbed by the roar of trade and commerce . Suddenly , almost like a thunderbolt from a clear sky , were ushered in the storm and stress of the Industrial Revolution . The mechanical ...
... medieval England , quiet , primeval , and undisturbed by the roar of trade and commerce . Suddenly , almost like a thunderbolt from a clear sky , were ushered in the storm and stress of the Industrial Revolution . The mechanical ...
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... medieval . The old view which regarded the whole system of social in- equality as the divine order from the foundation of the world still held sway . The whole English political system was in the hands of the king and the great landed ...
... medieval . The old view which regarded the whole system of social in- equality as the divine order from the foundation of the world still held sway . The whole English political system was in the hands of the king and the great landed ...
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... medieval doctrines . The wonderful expansion of trade and commerce which came with the great inventions broke the narrow bonds of the old mediƦval order ; the aristocratic and divine right foundations crumbled from beneath the ...
... medieval doctrines . The wonderful expansion of trade and commerce which came with the great inventions broke the narrow bonds of the old mediƦval order ; the aristocratic and divine right foundations crumbled from beneath the ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool