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Excerpt from Syllabus of a Course of Classes on English Social History: 1760-1815
Summary of main effects of economic changes, 1760 1815. Great commercial developments. English tonnage doubled between 1780 and 1790: exports averaged 13 millions, 1780-1790; 24_rnillions 1792-1800; 18-00-1810 34 millions. Partly because oi-war English goods flooded foreign markets. But qualitative change in English economic life more sigui ficant than quantitative, England transformed from agri cultural to industrial and urban nation: concentration of industry: growth of a new kind of society and new class relationships: disappearance of rural middle classes, and growth of an aristocracy of capitalist employers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
