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

The Project Gutenberg eBook, CommercialGeography, by Jacques W. RedwayThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Commercial GeographyA Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business CollegesAuthor: Jacques W. RedwayRelease Date: March 20, 2008 [eBook #24884]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY*** E-text prepared by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, Greg Bergquist,and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp.net) COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHYCOMMERCIALGEOGRAPHYA BOOK FOR HIGH SCHOOLSCOMMERCIAL COURSES, ANDBUSINESS COLLEGESBYJACQUES W. REDWAY, F.R.G.S.Author of "A Series of Geographies," "An ElementaryPhysical Geography," "The New Basis of Geography"CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONSNEW YORK :::::::::::::::::: 1907Copyright, 1903, byJACQUES W. REDWAYPREFACEThe quiet industrial struggle through which the United States passed during the last decade of the nineteenth centurycannot fail to impress the student of political economy with the fact that commercial revolution is a normal result ofindustrial evolution. Within a period of twenty-five years the transportation of commodities has grown to be not only ascience, but a power in the ...