Excerpt from The Staple Trades of the Empire: The Imperial Studies Series
Among these Imperial Studies a place of consider able importance must be allotted to those that relate to economic development, and particularly to a study of the conditions that govern the trades in the great staples of commerce whereby the Empire provides its subsist ence and a considerable proportion of its material wealth. Such a study undertaken without proper con tact with other branches of knowledge would inevitably lead to false conclusions and to too great an insistence.
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