| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-408) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the puzzle -- Interests, ideas and institutions simplified : a demand- and supply-side perspective -- The demand side : the league, the landowners, and free trade ; Lessons in lobbying for free trade : to concentrate or not ; Nationalizing the interest in free trade ; The waning demand for protection : portfolio diversification of landowners ; Votes in Parliament, dissected into ideology, party, and interests -- The supply side. Conservatives who sounded like trustees but voted like delegates ; Repeal in historical context : key Parliamentary debates on the corn laws before 1846 ; Free trade's last hurdle : why the lords acquiesced ; Feeling the heat of the league? : how local newspapers affected MPs' voting on repeal ; Concluding thoughts on repeal and the road to democratic reform in nineteenth-century Britain. |
| Summary |
The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Parliament -- Voting -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. Parliament. |
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Voting. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Parliament. |
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Grande-Bretagne. Parliament -- Vote -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. |
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Großbritannien / Parlament. |
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Corn laws (Great Britain) -- History -- 19th century.
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Corn laws (Great Britain) |
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Free trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Free trade. |
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Great Britain. |
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1837-1901 |
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1800-1901 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl, 1961- From the corn laws to free trade. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262195437 9780262195430 (DLC) 2006043343 (OCoLC)64487357 |
| ISBN |
9780262283205 (electronic book) |
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0262283204 (electronic book) |
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9781429477673 (electronic book) |
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1429477679 (electronic book) |
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1282097555 |
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9781282097551 |
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0262195437 (alkaline paper) |
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9780262195430 (alkaline paper) |
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