Author: TORRENS, W.T.M:
Title: Lancashire's lesson; or the need of a settled policy in times of exceptional distress. A
Description: London, Trubner, 1864, pp. viii, 192. Original cloth. Spine worn and fraying, but still tight and sound. Small piece missing from front endpaper, else contents good. An account of distress in the manufacturing districts and particularly the effects of the Cotton Famine brought on by the American Civil War.

Keywords: Lancashire, factories,cotton manufacture,poverty,cotton famine,Blackburn,Manchester,


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