COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

HISTORICAL REVIEW

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A Historical Review of the Economic Conditions of
the British Empire from the Peace of Paris in 1815
to the Declaration of War in 1914, based on
Parliamentary Debates

EDITED BY

WILLIAM PAGE, F.S.A.
General Editor of the Victoria History of the
Counties of England

WITH A PREFACE BY

SIR WILLIAM ASHLEY, M.A., Ph.D.
Vice-Principal of the University of Birmingham and Dean of the Faculty of

Commerce

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1919

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