An Introduction to Economic HistoryHarper & Brothers, 1922 - 350 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 122 - The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
الصفحة 23 - Milk, butter, and cheese became known, and domesticated animals furnished hides for leather, and wool for clothing and tents. Wagons and carts were drawn from place to place by horses and oxen as beasts of burden. People of such habits were the "pastoral nomads...
الصفحة 240 - Soon practically all the important railroad lines focussed on the metropolis. This meant that the hinterland was truly bound to the metropolis by bands of steel, the rails of the new roads. Contemporaneous with railroad construction came the building up of oversea traffic on a new and regular basis by means of the steamer. What was done for London's hinterland trade by the railroad was done for its extended trade by the steamship. The two, of course, are but parts of the same mechanism. With Sheffield...
الصفحة 49 - It is only when residence in one spot is continuous from season to season, and is ostensibly permanent from year to year, when no change is contemplated, or is part of the regular order of events...
الصفحة 142 - At once t bought back all the estates that had belonged to my master. I built a house and traded in cattle ; everything I touched grew like a honeycomb. When I found that I had more than all the citizens of the town put together I quit the counter and set up my freedmen in business for me. Then I built this house. As you know, it was once a hovel, now it's fit for a god. It has four dining rooms upstairs, my own bedroom, this viper's sitting-room, a very fine porter's lodge, and spare rooms for guests....
الصفحة 184 - ... structural feature of the metropolitan area is an extremely high degree of interdependence that is reflected in an intricate territorial division of labor. To quote NSB Gras, the economic historian, We may think of metropolitan economy as an organization of people having a large city as a nucleus. . . . Mere agglomeration of individuals, important as that is, does not constitute a metropolis. . . . What counts most is commercial dominance over a wide area . . .9 Yet Gras went on to qualify the...
الصفحة 142 - ... myself master in the house, and trust me, I began to live after my own fancy. To make a long story short, my master made me coheir with Caesar, and I came in for a senator's fortune. But no one ever has enough, and I had a desire to turn merchant. Not to detain you long, I built five ships, freighted them with wine, (it was worth its weight in gold then,) and sent them to Rome. Just as if I had bid them do it on purpose, they were wrecked, every one of them. It's a fact, and no story : in one...
الصفحة 330 - What values there are in studies of year-to-year fluctuations in margins and costs should now be apparent. If margins or net profits are unusually high or low at any given time, the presumption is that a maladjustment has developed which will right itself in time, but which righting can...
الصفحة 142 - I buy cheap and sell dear; turyAJ)others may have different ideas. I'm running over with good luck. As I was saying, it's my careful management that has brought me all this wealth. I was only as big as that lamp when I came from Asia, in fact I used to measure myself by it every day. By heaven's help I became master in the house, and then I caught the fancy of my fool of a lord. So at his death he made me co-legatee with the Emperor and I got a senator's fortune. But no one ever has enough.
الصفحة 107 - From the standpoint of the towii, the villages were its customers and sources of supply. From the standpoint of the villages, the town was the center to which they went to dispose of their surplus products and to add to their supplies. The relationship was, of course, not only one of mutual dependence but one of mutual advan...