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FIGURE 17.3 Exports of English Manufactured Goods, 1700–1774 While trade between England and Europe stagnated after 1700, English exports to Africa and the Americas boomed and greatly stimulated English economic development.
(Source: Data from R. Davis, “English Foreign Trade, 1700–1774,” Economic History Review, 2d ser., 15 [1962]: 302–303.)