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... rapidly into new relations , in which the old formulæ , maxims , and moralisings became useless and void . The old economic order and basis of life were swept away , and in the confusion- " the wreck of matter and crush of worlds " -it ...
... rapidly into new relations , in which the old formulæ , maxims , and moralisings became useless and void . The old economic order and basis of life were swept away , and in the confusion- " the wreck of matter and crush of worlds " -it ...
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... rapidly in the eighteenth century . Between 1710 and 1760 , 334,974 acres were enclosed , and between 1760 and 1843 the enclosure amounted almost to 7,000,000 acres . Whatever injustice the enclosure may have wrought , it is evident ...
... rapidly in the eighteenth century . Between 1710 and 1760 , 334,974 acres were enclosed , and between 1760 and 1843 the enclosure amounted almost to 7,000,000 acres . Whatever injustice the enclosure may have wrought , it is evident ...
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... rapidly in numbers and wealth after the advent of the great inventions , had been gradually rising as masters of other workmen , until , in 1760 , we hear of a few mills employing large numbers of labourers . The dependence of workmen ...
... rapidly in numbers and wealth after the advent of the great inventions , had been gradually rising as masters of other workmen , until , in 1760 , we hear of a few mills employing large numbers of labourers . The dependence of workmen ...
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... rapid transit it is difficult to imagine the times when the products of mill , mine , and farm were laboriously and slowly dragged to markets in waggons , canal boats , or on horseback . A large ... rapidly developed ENGLAND IN 1760 17.
... rapid transit it is difficult to imagine the times when the products of mill , mine , and farm were laboriously and slowly dragged to markets in waggons , canal boats , or on horseback . A large ... rapidly developed ENGLAND IN 1760 17.
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Charles Austin Beard. century . " The canal system was being rapidly developed throughout the country . In 1777 the Grand Trunk canal , ninety - six miles in length , connecting the Trent and Mersey , was finished ; Hull and Liverpool ...
Charles Austin Beard. century . " The canal system was being rapidly developed throughout the country . In 1777 the Grand Trunk canal , ninety - six miles in length , connecting the Trent and Mersey , was finished ; Hull and Liverpool ...
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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