ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 3|2 pages
COMMENTS ON KADISH AND MALONEY
chapter 4|13 pages
PEEL, ROTTEN POTATOES AND PROVIDENCE
The repeal of the Corn Laws and the Irish Famine
chapter 5|19 pages
Interests, ideology and politics: agricultural trade policy in nineteenth-century Britain and Germany
Agricultural trade policy in nineteenth- century Britain and Germany
chapter 7|19 pages
Merchant City: the Manchester business community, the trade cycle, and commercial policy, c. 1820–1846
The Manchester business community, the trade cycle and commercial policy, c.1820–
chapter 8|22 pages
‘EIN STÜCK ENGLANDS’?
A contrast between the free-trade movements in Hamburg and Manchester
part 9|2 pages
COMMENTS ON LLOYD-JONES AND BREUILLY
chapter 16|17 pages
FREE TRADE, SOCIAL REFORM AND IMPERIALISM
J.A.Hobson and the dilemmas of Liberalism, 1890–1914
part 20|2 pages
COMMENTS ON CAPIE
chapter 21|25 pages
THE END OF FREE TRADE
Protection and the exchange rate regime between the world wars
chapter 22|21 pages
SHAPING THE LESSONS OF HISTORY
Britain and the rhetoric of American trade policy, 1930–1960
