The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... House Committee , as well as to many other gentlemen , I owe the acknow- ledgment of valuable information . R. ARTHUR ARNOLD . MANCHESTER : July 1864 . THE HISTORY OF THE COTTON FAMINE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY viii PREFACE .
... House Committee , as well as to many other gentlemen , I owe the acknow- ledgment of valuable information . R. ARTHUR ARNOLD . MANCHESTER : July 1864 . THE HISTORY OF THE COTTON FAMINE . CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY viii PREFACE .
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... House of Commons has held many a beating heart and throbbing brain , many a statesman fearing no one but himself , and many a timid aspirant fearing all else ; but surely it never held such another as the gloomy , sanguine mechanic who ...
... House of Commons has held many a beating heart and throbbing brain , many a statesman fearing no one but himself , and many a timid aspirant fearing all else ; but surely it never held such another as the gloomy , sanguine mechanic who ...
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... houses in Manchester and Liverpool felt the severest diffi- culty in meeting their liabilities . They had plenty of goods in stock , but the enchanter , demand , was not at hand to turn them into gold . In Bombay , ' shirtings ' found ...
... houses in Manchester and Liverpool felt the severest diffi- culty in meeting their liabilities . They had plenty of goods in stock , but the enchanter , demand , was not at hand to turn them into gold . In Bombay , ' shirtings ' found ...
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... houses of the kingdom during the period of the Cotton Famine . But though the Bledlow peasant rejoiced , it is not ... House of Commons by the simple narration of his own sufferings and privations as a factory boy , he spoke as one of ...
... houses of the kingdom during the period of the Cotton Famine . But though the Bledlow peasant rejoiced , it is not ... House of Commons by the simple narration of his own sufferings and privations as a factory boy , he spoke as one of ...
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... house which is wind and weather proof , though a filthy roadway may rise high above the door - sill , -though the ... houses . But it is the condition of the cotton trade , and of the various classes included in this denomination , which ...
... house which is wind and weather proof , though a filthy roadway may rise high above the door - sill , -though the ... houses . But it is the condition of the cotton trade , and of the various classes included in this denomination , which ...
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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