The Rise of the Great Manufacturers in England, 1760-1790 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise of the Great Manufacturers in England, 1760-1790 Natural resources; the basis of the latter was an elaborate and monopolistic commercial system. The great manufacturers, who rose rapidly to a sense of unity and a position of power during the first half of the reign of George III, were poueped of neither commercial monopoly nor a monopoly a! Natural raourou. Their origin was in the transition to mechanical production; their economic basis was in the superior productive and competi tive power of the new machines. 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.