| Arnold Toynbee - 1884 - 304 páginas
...to supply the greater part of England's demand; much was imported from America, Eussia, and Sweden. Wool and silk were woven and spun in scattered villages by families who eked out their subsistence by agriculture. " Manufacturer " meant not the owner of power-looms and steam-engines and factories, buying... | |
| Arnold Toynbee - 1887 - 314 páginas
...to supply the greater part of England's demand ; much was imported from America, Eussia, and Sweden. Wool and silk were woven and spun in scattered villages by families who eked out their subsistence by agriculture. " Manufacturer " meant not the owner of power-looms and steam-engines and factories, buying... | |
| Arnold Toynbee - 1908 - 328 páginas
...to supply the greater part of England's demand ; much was imported from America, Russia, and Sweden. Wool and silk were woven and spun in scattered villages by families who eked out their subsistence by agriculture. ' Manufacturer ' meant not the owner of power-looms and steamengines and factories, buying... | |
| Theresa Schmid McMahon - 1912 - 142 páginas
...them should not leave the manor or district in which she usually lived to seek work elsewhere."1" v Jn the early stages of industry "wool and silk were woven...and women of the neighborhood to make into cloth the v/ool raised upon their own lands. "In many districts the farmers and labourers used few things which... | |
| University of Wisconsin - 1912 - 468 páginas
...them should not leave the manor or district in which she usually lived to seek work elsewhere."10 ln the early stages of industry "wool and silk were woven and spun in scattered vilbigcs by families who eked out their subsistence by agriculture."17 Often in the sixteenth century... | |
| 1928 - 330 páginas
...to supply the greater part of England's demand; much was imported from America, Eussia, and Sweden. Wool and silk were woven and spun in scattered villages by families who eked out their subsistence by agriculture. 'Manufacturer ' meant not the owner of power-looms and steamengines and factories, buying... | |
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