tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post8935209737755036228..comments2024-03-26T14:19:33.332-07:00Comments on Bench Grass: Following Up Follow Ups About Following Up: Exports, Fashion and the Warfare StateErik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-81758882567035339332017-03-22T09:21:33.280-07:002017-03-22T09:21:33.280-07:00Indeed, but he's also got some interesting poi...Indeed, but he's also got some interesting points about just how important the Spanish navy was for driving Spanish (and Cuban!) development. <br /><br />We really do need to talk about textiles, and I thought it was interesting to point how the export drive of the War of the Spanish Succession pushed English textile production (and not just the proportion exported) up, before all the innovations and labour-saving --and in woollens, too. (Since the story is ordinarily about cotton.)<br /><br />I even notice, deep in Jones, a comment about how agricultural innovation had probably pushed English agriculture to the limits of its market already in the late Seventeenth Century. it's a tech bubble!Erik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-39301577678929694352017-03-22T05:18:59.052-07:002017-03-22T05:18:59.052-07:00NAM Rodgers has some useful data on the way the Br...NAM Rodgers has some useful data on the way the British state invested systematically in all things naval from 1688, year in, year out. Not just ships, but shipyards, iron-founding, casting, copper sheeting (from 1750), textiles, food preservation, inland transport to deliver all these things, nautical instruments, ropeworks, pulleys..... It gave a lasting advantage over the French and Spanish but demanded a high constant level of expenditure, whether or not the country was at open war. Another, very large, source of industrial subsidy... Peter Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13289172253358199028noreply@blogger.com