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Scottish, Irish, and imperial connections: Parliament, the three kingdoms, and the mechanization of cotton spinning in eighteenth‐century Britain 1
Author(s) -
GRIFFITHS TREVOR,
HUNT PHILIP,
O’BRIEN PATRICK
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.014
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1468-0289
pISSN - 0013-0117
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00414.x
Subject(s) - 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 , paleontology , linguistics , algorithm , biology , computer science
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.