Freedom and Trade: Free trade and its reception, 1815-1960Andrew Marrison, Geraint Parry Annotation This book examines the Corn Laws and their repeal. It brings together leading international experts working in the field from Britain, Europe and the United States. Their contributions range widely over the history, politics and economics of free trade and protectionism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; together they provide a landmark study of a vitally important subject, and one which remains at the top of today's international agenda. |
Contents
Editors Introduction | 1 |
Free trade and high wages the economics of the AntiCorn Law League | 14 |
Gladstone Peel and the Corn Laws | 28 |
Comments on Kadish and Maloney | 48 |
Peel rotten potatoes and providence the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Irish Famine | 50 |
Interests ideology and politics agricultural trade policy in nineteenth century Britain and Germany | 63 |
Comments on Kinealy and SchonhardtBailey | 82 |
Merchant City The Manchester business community the trade cycle and commercial policy c1820 1846 | 86 |
Free trade and the Victorians | 164 |
Time is bearing another son Tariff reform and imperial apocalypse | 184 |
15 Comments on Howe and Sykes | 203 |
Free trade social reform and imperialism JA Hobson and the dilemmas of Liberalism 18901914 | 207 |
Insular free trade retaliation and the MostFavouredNation Treaty 18801914 | 224 |
Comments on Cain and Marrison | 243 |
The sources and origins of Britains return to protection 19312 | 246 |
Comments on Capie | 260 |
Ein Stück Englands? A contrast between the freetrade movements in Hamburg and Manchester | 105 |
Comments on LloydJones and Breuilly | 127 |
The reciprocity debate in Parliament 18421846 Douglas A Irwin | 129 |
The reception of political economy of free trade the case of Sweden | 145 |
Comments on Irwin and Magnusson | 161 |
Common terms and phrases
Adam Smith agricultural American Anglo-American Anti-Corn Law League argued argument Austen Chamberlain Balfour Britain Cambridge cent Chamberlain chapter Cobden Cobdenite colonial commercial policy competition Conservative Corn Laws cotton countries debate duties Economic History economic interests economic policy economists effect electoral empire European example exchange rate exports favour fiscal foreign tariffs France free trade free-trade German Gladstone Gladstone's Hamburg historians Ibid ideas ideology imperial imperial preference imports increase industrial interest groups international trade Ireland Irish J.A. Hobson labour Law League liberal London Manchester manufactures merchant negotiations nineteenth century nomic Oxford Parliament Peel Peel's Peelite political economy position potato production protection protectionism protectionist radical reciprocity reduce repeal retaliation Ricardo Richard Cobden Schonhardt-Bailey Smith social reform Sweden Swedish tariff reductions tariff reform theory tion Torrens Torrens's trade policy treaties unilateral University Press wages Whig Zollverein