The Rural Industries Round Oxford A Survey Made On Behalf Of The Institute For Research In Agricultural Economics University Of Oxford

Author : K. S. Woods
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330224236
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book The Ral Industries Round Oxford written by K. S. Woods and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ral Industries Round Oxford: A Survey Made on Behalf of the Institute for Research Into Agricultural Economics, University of Oxford The history of rural England during the last two centuries is closely bound up with the development of the nation as a whole. When this fact is recognized it is frequently stated in terms of theory or of policy. It is sometimes said, for instance, that the towns have developed at the expense of the villages, or that other industries have been fostered at the expense of agriculture. Without discussing the general question as to the importance of conscious direction of the economic, political, and social development of national life in the period in which modern England was in the making, it may be said that persons who are now interested in the re-population of the countryside are apt to underrate the importance of causes which brought about results far more important and far-reaching than those the persons who originated the causes ever dreamed of. Many who are interested in the development of country life see their chief friends and antagonists in persons and their policies, and pay little attention to natural forces, or to economic and social forces which have results not consciously sought by their originators and directors. The fallacy of this view is never more evident than during a consideration of the present condition of rural industries. When Hargreaves patented the spinning-jenny, Arkwright the water-frame, Crompton the mule, and Watt the steam-engine, they had no ill-will against the woollen industries in the southwestern counties, nor any particular predilection in favour of the northern counties; yet these inventions changed the whole economic and social structure of both those areas. Stephenson was not dominated by a theory that men could live better lives when congregated in large towns than scattered over the country when he applied the steam-engine to railroad traction, yet his work was to a large extent the cause of the later increases in the mass of urban population in this country. 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.