The English Navigation Laws: A Seventeenth-Century Experiment in Social Engineering

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xiii
• Abbreviations xv
• Introduction 1
• I History and Social Engineering 3
• Part One Origin of the Laws 7
• Ii the Mercantile Mind 9
• Iii Early Experiments 19
• Iv the Legislative History of an Idea 34
• V Parliament and the Acts 50
• Vi the Law at the Waterside 63
• Part Two Enforcement in England 75
• Vii the Administrative Heritage 77
• Viii Methods of Enforcement 89
• Ix the Human Factor 98
• X the Courts and the Law 109
• Xi My Lords and Administration 124
• Xii the Control of Enforcement 135
• Part Three Enforcement in the Colonies 149
• Xiii Administration Outside the Realm 151
• Xiv Transference of Administrative Technique 161
• Xv Colonial Courts 182
• Xvi Governors and Their Handicaps 204
• Xvii the Difficulties of Remote Control 216
• Part Four Results 229
• Xviii Standards of Judgment 231
• Xix Asia, Africa, and America 239
• Xx Europe and the Levant 275
• Xxi Entrepot Towns and Timber Lands 298
• Xxii Ships and Seamen 321
• Xxiii Weighing the Evidence 365
• Conclusion 379
• Xxiv Points to Remember 381
• Appendices 385
• Bibliography 417
• Table of Statues Cited 449
• Index 461

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