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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Commercial Geography, by Jacques W. Redway This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges Author: Jacques W. Redway Release Date: March 20, 2008 [eBook #24884] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY*** E-text prepared by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, Greg Bergquist, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24884-h.htm or 24884-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/8/8/24884/24884-h/24884-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/8/8/24884/24884-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by equal signs was in bold face in the original (=bold=). COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY A Book for High Schools Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by JACQUES W. REDWAY, F.R.G.S. Author of "A Series of Geographies," "An Elementary Physical Geography," "The New Basis of Geography" Charles Scribner's Sons New York ... 1907 Copyright, 1903, by Jacques W. Redway PREFACE The quiet industrial struggle through which the United States passed during the last decade of the nineteenth century cannot fail to impress the student of political economy with the fact that commercial revolution is a normal result of industrial evolution. Within a period of twenty-five years the transportation of commodities has grown to be not only a science, but a power in the betterment of civil and political life as well; and the world, which in the time of M. Jules Verne was eighty days wide, is now scarcely forty. The invention of the Bessemer process for making steel was intended primarily to give the railway-operator a track that should be free from the defects of the soft, wrought-iron rail; in fact, however, it created new industrial centres all over the world and brought Asia and Africa under commercial conquest. The possibilities of increased trade bet
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