English Economic History: Select Documents (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from English Economic History: Select Documents<br><br>The object of this book i; to supply''teachers'' and students of English Economic History with a selection of documents which may serve as illustrations of their subject. It should be read in conjunction with some work containing a broad survey of English economic development such as to mention the latest and best example Professor W. J. Ashleyfs The Economic Organization of England. 1 The number of historical source books has been multiplied so rapidly in recent years that we ought perhaps to apologise for adding one to their number. We ventured to do so because in the course of our work as teachers of Economic History in the University Tutorial Classes organised by the Workers'' Educational Association we found it difficult to refer our students to any single book containing the principal documents with which they ought to be acquainted. That Economic History cannot be studied apart from Constitutional and Political History 18 a common place to which we subscribe; and we are not so incautious as to be tempted into a discussion of what exactly Economic His tory means. It 18 sufficient for our purpose that a subject which is called by that name is being increasingly studied by Univer sity students and that while the principal documents of English Constitutional History are available in the works of Stubbs Prothero Gardiner and Grant Robertson there is no book as far as we know - except Professor Pollard''s The Reign of Henry VII. From Contemporary Sources - which'' illustrates English economic development in a similar way. We are far from comparing our own minnow with these Tritons. But it may perhaps do some service till more competent authors take the field. It is hardly necessary for us to apologise for translating our documents into English and for modernizing Messrs. Longman Green Co.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.