The Industrial Monopoly and Its Decline
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After the abolition of the corn law, other forms of protection
It was in the boom that collapsed in 1873 when there was great anxious concern about both markets and materials
Arable and meat producing farmers felt the full weight of foreign competition between 1870 and 1900. In industry,
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