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Title: Commercial Geography
A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges

Author: Jacques W. Redway

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Language: English

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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