Excerpt from A History of Money in a Countries The great political revolutions which, during the half century from 1775 to 1825, destroyed the Colonial governments in America and uprooted the feudal system in Europe, also broke down the most formidable barriers that stood in the way of international commerce. Corn, bullion, and other commodities, formerly forbidden to be shipped from one country to another, are now free to go whither price or profit may determine. These radical changes, followed by the extensive applica tion of steam to water and land transit, and the opening of the Asiatic ports, have ushered in a new era of commerce, which, dealing with an infinite variety of objects, stretches its arms to the remotest corners of the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.