English economic history/ George W. Southgate

Includes summaries and index

The Manorial system -- Towns and Trade in the Middle Age -- Craft Gilds -- The Break- up of the Manorial System -- the Growth of the Manufacture of Woolen cloth -- The Growth of English Overseas Trade -- The Agrarian Revolution of the Sixteenth Century -- Mercantilism -- company Trading -- The Navigation system -- The Regulation of Industry by the state -- National finance before The Revolution of 1688-9 -- The Agrarian Revolution in the Eighteenth Century -- The Industrial Revolution -- The Revolution in the Textile Industries -- Coal -- Iron, Steel and Engineering -- Roads and Canals -- Agriculture in the first Half of the Nineteenth Century -- The Factory System and The Factory Acts -- British Railways -- Agriculture since the Middle of the Nineteenth Century -- National Finance since the Revolution of 1688-9 -- Trade Unionism -- Modern British Shipping -- the Co- Operative Movement -- Pauperism -- Public Health -- The English Banking system -- General Price Movement -- Insurance -- The Prevalence of "Laissez- Faire" -- The Decline of "Laissez- Faire" -- After the War of 1939-45

The aim of this work is to present to the reader an account of the Economic History of this country which shall be something more than a mere outline and which shall, at the time, not be too abstruse to be of use to the student who is approaching the subject or the first time.