Excerpt from British Commerce and Colonies: From Elizabeth to Victoria This review of the history of British commerce since the days of Queen Elizabeth has been written to supply the want of a short text-book, which should present the main outlines of, and facts about, our commercial progress in a simple and concise form, without going into those interesting but often elaborate details which more fitly belong to larger works. It is intended partly for those schools and colleges which now devote some attention to commercial as well as to political history, but also, it is hoped, will be of use to the general public, and especially to men of business, who take an interest in the development of our national commerce, but who have not time for a lengthened study of the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.