Category: History - Modern (1750+)
The development of agriculture--The over-population prejudice --Can the soil of Great Britain feed its inhabitants?--British agriculture--Compared with agriculture in France; in Belgium; in Denmark--Market-gardening: its achievements--Is it profitable to grow wheat in Great Br...
The development of agriculture--The over-population prejudice --Can the soil of Great Britain feed its inhabitants?--British agriculture--Compared with agriculture in France; in...
4. CHAPTER IV. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE (_continued_) 1585. CHAPTER V. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE (_continued_) 1886. CHAPTER VI. SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES 241Industry and agriculture--The small industries--Different types--_Petty trades in Great Britain_: Sheffield, Leeds, Lake District, Birmingham--Statistical data--_Petty trades in...
7. CHAPTER VII. SMALL INDUSTRIES AND INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES8. CHAPTER VIII. BRAIN WORK AND MANUAL WORK 363Divorce between science and handicraft--Technical education --Complete education--The Moscow system; applied at Chicago, Boston, Aberdeen--Concrete teaching--Present waste of ti...
9. CHAPTER IX. CONCLUSION 41010. CHAPTER I.Who does not remember the remarkable chapter by which Adam Smith opens his inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations? Even those of our contemporary economists...
11. CHAPTER II.The flow of industrial growths spreads, however, not only east; it moves also south-east and south. Austria and Hungary are rapidly gaining ground in the race for industrial imp...
12. CHAPTER III.The development of agriculture--Over-population prejudice--Can the soil of Great Britain feed its inhabitants?--British agriculture--Compared with agriculture in France; in Belg...
13. CHAPTER IV.Few books have exercised so pernicious an influence upon the general development of economic thought as Malthus’s _Essay on the Principle of Population_ exercised for three cons...
14. CHAPTER V.One of the most interesting features of the present evolution of agriculture is the extension lately taken by intensive market-gardening of the same sort as has been described i...
15. CHAPTER VI.Industry and agriculture--The small industries--Different types--_Petty trades in Great Britain_: Sheffield, Leeds, Lake District, Birmingham--Statistical data--_Petty trades in...
16. CHAPTER VII.The various industries which still have retained in Germany the characters of petty and domestic trades have been the subject of many exhaustive explorations, especially by A. M...
17. CHAPTER VIII.Divorce between science and handicraft--Technical education--Complete education--The Moscow system: applied at Chicago, Boston, Aberdeen--Concrete teaching--Present waste of tim...
18. CHAPTER IX.Readers who have had the patience to follow the facts accumulated in this book, especially those who have given them a thoughtful attention, will probably feel convinced of the...