The John Crerar Library
A list of Books on the History of Industry and industrial Arts

INDUSTRIAL AND ECONOMIC 19 Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882. 309.42 L901 □ 6020 The history of progress in Great Britain. By Robert Kemp Philp. With numerous illustrations, by W. Newman, C. Mel- ville, J. Gilbert, H. C. Maguire, etc. Agriculture, roads, car- riages, water conveyances, domestic architecture, shipping, navi- gation, geographical discovery. London, Houlston and Wright, 1859. xiv, 386 p. col. front., 9 pl., 2 maps (1 fold.), 1 fold, facsim. 2jom. Poole, Reginald Lane, 1857- 33^-42 R200 86278 The Exchequer in the twelfth century. The Ford lectures de- livered in the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1911, by Reginald L. Poole, .... Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1912. xi, 195» L1] P- 23cm> Porter, George Richardson. 3T4-2 6 12068 The progress of the nation, in its various social and economical relations, from the beginning of the nineteenth century. A new edition. xxiii,846 p. O. London: J. Murray, 1847. Porter, George Richardson, 1792-1852. 3I4-2 L100 90381 The progress of the nation, in its various social and economical relations, from the beginning of the nineteenth century. By G. R. Porter, ... . A new edition. London, J. Murray, 185 1. xxvii, 843, [1] p. incl. tables. 22icm. Contents. — Population. — Production. — Interchange. — Public revenue and expend- iture.— Consumption.—Accumulation.—Moral progress.—Colonies and foreign de- pendencies. Porter, George Richardson, 1792-1852. 314.2 R200 $8857 The prOgress of the nation in its various social and economic re- lations from the beginning of the nineteenth century, by G. R. Porter. A completely new edition, revised and brought up to date, by F. W. Hirst, .... London, Methuen & Co., ltd., [1912]. xvi, [2], 735 p. incl. tables. 22^cm. Contents. — I. Population. — 2. Trades and occupations. — 3. Wages (nominal and real), prices, and employment. — 4. Pauperism. — 5. Housing and rent.—6. Crime, drink, insanity. — 7. The progress of education.— 8. Local government in general. —9. The rising standard of comfort. — 10. British agriculture, 1800-1850. — 11. British agri- culture from 1850. — 12. British mines and mining. — 13. Iron and steel manufactures. — 14. Machinery, engineering, shipbuilding, and electrical trades. —15. The minor metal trades, hardware, glass, and pottery.— 16. (a). Introduction to the textile industries.— 16. (b). Cotten. — 17. Wool. — 18. Other textile trades, silk, linen, jute, and hemp. — 19. Leather, boots and shoes. — 20. Hosiery, lace, hats and gloves.—21. Paper and printing trades. —- 22. The chemical and soap trades. — 23. Timber, and the building trade. — 24. Food supplies and consumption. — 25. Beer, wine, spirits, and tobacco. — 26. A view of our foreign commerce and navigation in the first half of the nineteenth century.— 27. British foreign trade (imports and exports), 1850-1910. — 28. Progress of British shipping. — 29. Internal communication. — 30. The post office. — 31. The coinage sys- tem of Great Britain and the empire. — 32. Paper currency and banking, 1800-1850. — 33. Progress of banking, 1850-1900. — 34. Insurance. — 35. Public revenue and expend- iture, 1800-1850. — 36. National expenditure and debt, 1850-1910. — 37. Taxation and commercial policy, 1840-1910. — 38. The growth of wealth and capital.