Ebook: Free Trade and its Reception 1815-1960, Volume 1: Freedom and Trade: Volume One

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Editor's introduction; Free trade and high wages: the economics of the Anti-Corn Law League; Gladstone, Peel and the Corn Laws; Comments on Kadish and Maloney; Peel, rotten potatoes and providence: the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Irish Famine; Interests, ideology and politics: agricultural trade policy in nineteenth-century Britain and Germany; Comments on Kinealy and Schonhardt-Bailey.;This book examines the Corn Laws and their repeal, and explores the development of free trade ideas in Britain and around the world. The contributors are leading international experts in the field from Britain, Europe and the United States.