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Ashworth traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England. He examines their influence on elements such as state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. If there was a unique pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and techno-centric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the e...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Life of Edward Biddle LatchEdward Biddle Latch, Chief Engineer U. S. N. (relative rank Commander), was born November 15, 1833, on his father's farm on old Lancaster road, Lower Merion township. Montgom ery county, a short distance above the present city, on Philadel phia county line. On the above date was recorded the greatest fall of meteors and shooting stars in history, and visible mainly to the people ...

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Life of Edward Biddle LatchEdward Biddle Latch, Chief Engineer U. S. N. (relative rank Commander), was born November 15, 1833, on his father's farm on old Lancaster road, Lower Merion township. Montgom ery county, a short distance above the present city, on Philadel phia county line. On the above date was recorded the greatest fall of meteors and shooting stars in history, and visible mainly to the people ...

An environmental travelogue that documents the changes in the Great Lakes since the publication of The Late, Great Lakes. Great Lakes Journey is a follow-up to William Ashworth's earlier book The Late, Great Lakes, published in 1986. Fifteen years after his first trip, Ashworth journeys to many of the same places and talks to many of the same people to examine the changes that have taken place along the Great Lakes since the 1980s. Through per...

The Ogallala Aquifer that lies deep beneath the Great Plains from Texas to Colorado contains enough water to fill Lake Erie nine times! Every year five trillion gallons are pumped out for irrigation, and if (or when) the aquifer goes dry, $20 billion worth of food and fiber grown with that irrigation will disappear. William Ashforth tells the fascinating history of the Ogallala from its formation millions of years ago to glimpses of the future...

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to understand the foundation of this process.In this book, William J. Ashworth questions some of the orthodoxies concerning the history of the industrial revolution and offers a deep and detailed rea...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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