A Guide to Some Aspects of English Social History, 1750-1850

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...population and supplies of food investigated. For this period valuable chiefly for information as to methods of collection of the official data, their reliability, and significance. 343. Farrer, Thomas Henry (Lord), The State in its Relation to Trade. 1883. 1902 ed. has a supplement by Sir Robert Giffen. xi, 208 p. The book is based on Lord Farrer's experience as Secretary to the Board of Trade, and is a review of the whole field of government influence on and interference with trade. Includes some history. Mercantile law, currency, patents, monopolies, harbors, post office, railways, shipping, tariffs, trade marks, labor legislation, taxation, war. 344. Gibbins, Henry de Beltgens, The History of Commerce in Europe. 1891. viii, 233 p. Maps, tables. Outlines of history for use as textbook. Antiquity to date, covering all Europe. 345. Noel, Octave, Histoire de commerce du monde depuis les temps les plus recules. 1891-1906. 3 v. Beautiful maps and illustrations. Bibliography in each volume. Centers about France, but Vol. Ill, L. I, C. Ill is on the repeal of the Corn Laws; and L. IV, Institutions ficonomiques, Maritimes et Commerciales, dealing with steamboats, companies, canals, posts, banks, chambers of commerce, and the like, has some material on England. 346. Bonnassieux, Louis Jean Pierre Marie, Les grandes compagnies de commerce, fitude pour servir a l'histoire de la colonisation. Paris, 1892. iv, 562 p. By far the best on French companies but good on the English, although the author depends to a considerable extent on secondary authorities, especially French ones. Interesting chapters on the nineteenth century colonization companies. 347. Bowley, Arthur Lyon, A Short Account of England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century, its economic ...