Oxford and the Rural Problem: Being the First Sidney Ball Memorial Lecyure December 1, 1920 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Excerpt from Oxford and the Rural Problem: Being the First Sidney Ball Memorial Lecyure December 1, 1920

The policy of rural neglect was incidental to the building up Of British commercial and industrial supremacy. Great Britain's insular position and the fact that she was a sea and not a land power led directly to this fatal policy, which was inaugurated during the industrial revolution. In the formative years of the industrial era England was immune from the interference of militarism with her industrial life. On the other hand she had in her sea-control every inducement and opportunity to make commercial expansion abroad keep pace with industrial develop ment at home. With the Opening up of vast tracts of Virgin soil in America, and with the rapid growth of the merchant marine, food could be more easily and more profitably brought in from the outside and paid for by the products Of factories than it could be grown at home. This simple fact is the basis of the British economic policy with its subordination to urban interests.

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