wunder · LibraryCHAPTER VIII. The Period of the Industrial Revolution
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Economic Changes of the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
55. National Affairs from 1760 to 1830..................... 199
56. The Great Mechanical Inventions........................ 203
57. The Factory System..................................... 212
58. Iron, Coal, and Transportation......................... 214
59. The Revival of Enclosures.............................. 216
60. Decay of Domestic Manufacture.......................... 220
61. The Laissez-faire Theory............................. 224
62. Cessation of Government Regulation..................... 228
63. Individualism.......................................... 232
64. Social Conditions at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century................................................ 235
65. Bibliography........................................... 239
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