Documents In English Economic History

Author : Alfred Edward Bland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330210901
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book English Economic History written by Alfred Edward Bland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Economic History: Select Documents The object of this book is to supply teachers and students of English Economic History with a selection of documents which may serve as illustrations of their subject. It should be read in conjunction with some work containing a broad survey of English economic development, such as, to mention the latest and best example, Professor W. J. Ashley's "The Economic Organization of England." The number of historical "source books" has been multiplied so rapidly in recent years that we, ought, perhaps, to apologise for adding one to their number. We ventured to do so because in the course of our work as teachers of Economic History in the University Tutorial Classes organised by the Workers' Educational Association, we found it difficult to refer our students to any single book containing the principal documents with which they ought to be acquainted. That Economic History cannot be studied apart from Constitutional and Political History is a commonplace to which we subscribe; and we are not so incautious as to be tempted into a discussion of what exactly Economic History means. It is sufficient for our purpose that a subject which is called by that name is being increasingly studied by University students, and that while the principal documents of English Constitutional History are available in the works of Stubbs, Prothero, Gardiner and Grant Robertson, there is no book, as far as we know - except Professor Pollard's "The Reign of Henry VII. from Contemporary Sources" - which illustrates English economic development in a similar way. We are far from comparing our own minnow with these Tritons. But it may perhaps do some service till more competent authors take the field. 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.