INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON THE CONTINENT (ebook)

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  STUDIES IN THE ECONOMIC POLICY OF FREDERICK THE GREAT

  W.O. HENDERSON

  Biographies of Frederick the Great generally emphasise the military and diplomatic events of his reign and neglect to discuss fully the significance of his economic policy. In this series of essays Dr. Henderson deals with various aspects of the Prussian economy in Frederick the Great’s reign. He describes Frederick’s commercial policy, the reconstruction of Prussia after the S...

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  INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN UNDER THE REGENCY

  W.O. HENDERSON

  In this book W. O. Henderson has brought together in English translation the journals of four foreign visitors who travelled in England and Scotland in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars, in a way which may be regarded as a sequel to his recent book on J. C. Fischer’s diaries of industrial Britain. Two of the travellers whose journals are included in this volum...

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  GENESIS OF THE COMMON MARKET

  W.O. HENDERSON

  First published in 1962. A study of the rise of great industries in Western Europe. The factors which promoted industrial growth in Britain also influenced economic developments on the other side of the English Channel and there were signs of progress in the manufactures of France, Germany and the Low Countries. The Common Market of the twentieth century owed much to the pionee...

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  J.C. FISCHER AND HIS DIARY OF INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND

  W.O. HENDERSON

  This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of 1,687,000 in 1817, faraway trade ports, and until 1848 no real central government wit...

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  THE GENESIS OF THE COMMON MARKET

  W.O. HENDERSON

  First Published in 1985. When modern sovereign states were first established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they did not immediately assume full control over their national economies. The arrangements inherited from the middle-ages survived for some time so that ports, inland commercial centres, provinces and even private persons retained a wide measure of control o...

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  FRIEDRICH ENGELS

  W.O. HENDERSON

  First published in 1976. The year 1970 saw the 150th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels who was Karl Marx's most intimate friend and collaborator. Today the disciples of Marx and Engels are numbered in millions and the way of life of great states is based upon their doctrines. An understanding of the career and work of Friedrich Engels is essential to an appreciation ...

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