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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... trade so enormous . All the larger cotton towns , with the single exception of Pres- ton , are situated upon , or in close proximity to , the strata known as the coal - measures ; and perhaps , from her less grimy throne on the new red ...
... trade so enormous . All the larger cotton towns , with the single exception of Pres- ton , are situated upon , or in close proximity to , the strata known as the coal - measures ; and perhaps , from her less grimy throne on the new red ...
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... trade , and the main cause of its depression is in the whimsical changes of unstable fashion . On the south- ern and ... trades , between the coal - fields of the two counties , might have been of obdurate granite instead of being ...
... trade , and the main cause of its depression is in the whimsical changes of unstable fashion . On the south- ern and ... trades , between the coal - fields of the two counties , might have been of obdurate granite instead of being ...
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... trade ; the reverse is more nearly the truth . But no one can take credit for the construction of the Mersey . None but Nature's hand could have carved out that mag- nificent estuary lying in front of and above Liverpool . Whether the ...
... trade ; the reverse is more nearly the truth . But no one can take credit for the construction of the Mersey . None but Nature's hand could have carved out that mag- nificent estuary lying in front of and above Liverpool . Whether the ...
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... space of God's earth has population obeyed the summons of capital to an equal extent , or with equal fecundity . From north , east , and south , numbers have flocked to share the profits of the cotton trade ; 6 HISTORY OF THE.
... space of God's earth has population obeyed the summons of capital to an equal extent , or with equal fecundity . From north , east , and south , numbers have flocked to share the profits of the cotton trade ; 6 HISTORY OF THE.
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... trade in rushes for the same and less honourable purposes . To India belongs the origin of the cotton manufacture . Shall not England henceforth remember this more truly ? The debt she owes to Greece for value received in litera- ture ...
... trade in rushes for the same and less honourable purposes . To India belongs the origin of the cotton manufacture . Shall not England henceforth remember this more truly ? The debt she owes to Greece for value received in litera- ture ...
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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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