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1. TRADING TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 1670–1700.

Author

Gravil, R.

Subjects
INTERNATIONAL trade, TEXTILE industry, RAW materials
Abstract

It is now well recognized that in the century before 1670 English traders to the Mediterranean enjoyed remarkable success selling increasing quantities of textiles, with a growing proportion completely finished, downgrading Turkey and Italy to the position of raw material suppliers, and taking over a large part of the Mediterranean carrying trade. It is also clear that after 1700 it was the Mediterranean trade, especially that with Spain and Portugal, which redeemed England's very modest trading performance with Europe. The chief interest of the activities of businessman John Oldbury and his group of business associates is that they date from the generation, which separates these two periods and therefore shed some light on the main commodity trades in Anglo-Iberian commerce in the last thirty years of the seventeenth century. Spain and Portugal were two agricultural countries ruling large colonial empires, and yet lacking sufficient manufacturing capacity even to begin to meet metropolitan demands. The success of English textiles in the area is to be accounted for by the virtually total default of indigenous industry. All English exports were of central, if not crucial, importance to the receiving economies and their dependent colonies, and it was this basic fact, which underlay England's dominant position. Iberian trade to England, on the other hand, was not equally indispensable.

Published
1968
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2. Notes.

Subjects
PUBLISHING, PAINTING, CHURCH & state
Abstract

This article presents information regarding the publication of several books related to different topics. E. P. Dutton & Co. have nearly ready a "History of the Church Catholic," by the Rev. A.H. Hore, a companion volume to the same author's "History of the Church of England." Probably the most widely read of contemporary Italian writers-certainly of travel-writers-is Edmondo de Amicis. An edition of his "Spain and the Spaniards," in two volumes newly translated from the tenth edition of the Italian by "Stanley Rhoads Yarnall," adorned with forty-seven full-page illustrations of scenery, cities, genre pictures and reproductions of famous paintings, bound in white and gold, and protected by stiff red covers.

Published
1895

3. A Foreign Volunteer in Spain.

Author

Ryerson., Barrington

Subjects
VOLUNTEERS, SPANISH Civil War, 1936-1939, SPANIARDS, FASCISTS, IMPERIALISM, ARMED Forces
Abstract

Focuses on the author's account of his journey as a foreign volunteer in Spain during the Spanish civil war. Views of the author on the reception they got; View that the volunteers felt proud in those moments to represent England among the democrats of the world; Views of author on Spaniards; Report that some refugees tell the volunteers, what they thought of the fascists, who had taken their village, and ruined their life; Report that the volunteers took the guns and filed over the long hills to where they could hear heavy firing; Description of fighting with the fascists and how his section was destroyed; View that the British volunteers were a far better type than an imperialist army could hope to find.

Published
1937