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Studies in the Industrial Revolution: Essays Presented to T. S. Ashton. Edited by L. S. Pressnell. London, The Athlone Press of the University of London, 1960. Pp. 350. 42s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

John L. Enos
John L. Enos
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Business History Review , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , Spring 1961 , pp. 122 - 126
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1961

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2 The subject of which events they chose to recreate I shall turn to later.

3 There is one exception to this statement. Potter's essay on the Atlantic economy is concerned not with all forms of economic activity — the production, exchange, and consumption of goods and services, and the movement and employment of labor, capital, and knowledge — but only with international trade in goods.

4 This is only an hypothesis, albeit a useful one. To paraphrase Tolstoy, history is easier to understand if one assumes people to be obedient.

5 Dunham, A. H., The Industrial Revolution in France 1815–1848 (New York, 1955), pp. 194, 195Google Scholar.

6 Incidentally from the few statistics Joslin quotes one gets an impression of a great growth in size of banks: the terminal figures on total deposits for the two banks he studied are £43,000 (Sept., 1745) and £484,000 (Dec., 1779) for Gosling's, and £460,000 (June, 1740) and £726,000 (1784) for Hoare's.