Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth‐century Britain1

2007/11/16 by Trevor R. Griffiths, Philip Hunt, Patrick O’Brien · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Economic and Social Studies #Scottish History and National Identity #Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis #Kingdom #Quarter (Canadian coin) #Irish #Parliament #Politics #State (computer science) #Economic history #Perspective (graphical) #History #Economy #Political science #Economics #Archaeology #Law #Art #Philosophy #Visual arts

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00414.x

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Abstract

This paper offers a new perspective on the emergence of machinery in the cotton spinning trade during the third quarter of the eighteenth century. It does so by examining the interplay between economic, political, and national interests within the early Hanoverian state. Changes in trading relationships between textile producers across the three kingdoms of England/Wales, Ireland, and Scotland created escalating supply‐side problems, which, by the 1760s, would precipitate a quest for solutions based on new technologies.

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