5. Condition of English roads and of carriage by land. [Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sect. 232, and references there; Smiles, Lives of the engineers, vol. 1.]
6. Canals, and their benefits. [Soc. Eng., vol. 5, pp. 322-326; Cunningham and references.]
7. Write an essay on the “domestic” system of manufactures, and the contrast it presents with earlier and later systems. [Hobson, Capitalism, chap. 2, sect. 11; Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sect. 227 and following.]
8. The influence on English industrial development of immigration from the Continent. [Cunningham, Growth, vol. 2, sects. 172, 199, 229, etc.]
9. Compare with sect. 244 sects. 283 ff., in the chapter on France, to realize the advantages of the English at this period.
10. Write a report on English manufactures in one of the following periods, from the descriptions in Social England.
(a) Seventeenth century [vol. 4, 122-130, 445-454, 581-588.]
(b) Eighteenth century, before the great inventions [vol. 5, 110-117, 305-322.]
11. Write a report on the history of one of the great industries (cotton, woolen, iron), choosing one of the following aspects of it: methods of manufacture, introduction of machinery, change in organization (domestic and factory system, etc.), importance in commerce. [Besides references like Cunningham and Social England the student will find the encyclopedia and Ure’s Dictionary of manufactures helpful, and probably easier to use.]
12. The great inventions. [Social England, 5: 459-474, 591-604.]