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Sir William Ashley: Some Unpublished Letters*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

H. W. McCready  and
W. J. Ashley
H. W. McCready
Affiliation:
McMaster University
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1955 , pp. 34 - 43
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1955

References

1 On Ashley see, Ashley, Anne, William James Ashley, a Life (London, 1932)Google Scholar; Usher, A. P., “William James Ashley: A Pioneer in Higher Education,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 05 1938, pp. 151–03CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “William James Ashley,” Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences.

2 , James and Artevelde, Philip van, Lothian Prize Essay (London, 1882).Google Scholar

3 Arnold Toynbee (1852-83), a disciple of T. H. Green, was led to economic history by his philanthropy. He was a tutor at Balliol when his lectures on the Industrial Revolution were given in 1881-82.

4 At the University of Toronto.

5 McEvoy, J. M., The Ontario Township, Toronto University Studies in Political Science, Series 1, No. 1, edited by Ashley, J. W. (Toronto, 1889).Google Scholar

6 Only Sinclair, A. H., Municipal Monopolies and their Management, Toronto University Studies in Political Science, Series 1, No. 2, edited by Ashley, J. W. (Toronto, 1891), was publishedGoogle Scholar.

7 An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (London, 1888).Google Scholar

8 The second volume appeared in 1893.

9 Unions, though long established in Canada, still found little favor with the general public. See Part II of Logan, H. A., Trade Unions in Canada; Their Development and Functioning (London, 1948)Google Scholar.

10 Schonberg, Gustav von, Handbuch der politischen Ockpnomie … Herausgegeben von Gustav von Schonberg, 2 vols. (Tubingen, 1882).Google Scholar

11 “The Rehabilitation of Ricardo,” September 1891, pp. 474-89.

12 “General Booth's Panacea,” pp. 537-50.

13 Dunbar, Charles Franklin was the first professor of Political Economy at Harvard (1871-1900) and the founder and first editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (1876–1894).Google Scholar

14 Schulze-Gaevernitz, Gerhard von, Zum socialen Frieden, Eine Darstellung der social-politischen Erziehung des englischen Voltes im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1890).Google Scholar

15 The German translation of Ashley's Economic History appeared in 1896 as one of a series of texts edited by Brentano, L. and Leser, E., Sammlung Slterer und neurer staatsunssen-schajflicker Schriften des In- und Auslandes (Leipzig, 1893, etc)Google Scholar.

16 The translator.

17 “The Beginnings of Town Life in the Middle Ages,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 07 1896, pp. 359–406.Google Scholar

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19 Agrarpolitik. Ein lehrbuch von dr. Lujo Brentano. I teil: theoretische einleitung in die agrarpolitik. (Stuttgart, 1897) (no more published).Google Scholar

20 The Adjustment of Wages; a Study in the Coal and Iron Industries of Great Britain and America (London, 1903).Google Scholar

21 The Tariff Problem (London, 1903)Google Scholar ; The Progress of the German Wording Classes in the Last Quarter of a Century (London, 1904)Google Scholar.

22 Oher syndicalism us und lohnminimum etc. (Munich, 1913).Google Scholar

23 Tom Mann, leader of the great dock strike of 1889, first Secretary of the Independent Labour Party, was a professional agitator of' revolutionary bent, first on syndicalist and then on communist lines. On Mann's syndicalist movement see S. and Webb, B., The History of Trade Unionism (London, 1926), pp. 657–59Google Scholar.

24 On this matter see, The Miners' Next Step (London, 1912).Google Scholar