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Why was Britain the first country to opt for unilateral free trade 150 years ago? On 16 May 1846, the House of Commons voted to abolish tariff protection for agriculture - the famous 'repeal of the Corn Laws'. Britain then adhered to her free trade policy despite both her relative economic decline and the protectionist policies of her leading trade rivals, the USA and Germany. This four volume set... Read more
Volume I Protectionism and its Critics, 1815—1837, Volume II Assault on the Corn Laws, 1838—1846, Volume III Freer Trade and its Critics, 184 7-1906, Volume IV Free Trade Reappraised: The New Secondary Literature
Biography
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
'Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey's excellent The Rise of Free Trade gathers together speeches, contemporary writings and extracts from parliamentary debates relating to British trade policy between 1815 and 1906.' - European Journal of Political Economy Vol.16, 2000
`Dethroning the dominance of European archaeology and bringing in the thinking and research of scholars from Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Amerindian and Innuit worlds and Aboriginal Australia' - Neil Ascherson
