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Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School

by Francis W. Hirst

London: Harper and Brothers, 1903; Online Library of Liberty edition337 pages

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Author
Francis W. Hirst
First published
1903
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
337
Publisher
London: Harper and Brothers, 1903; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Francis W. Hirst's anthology of speeches and writings by Cobden, Bright, and other figures of the Manchester School, with his introduction. It covers free trade and the repeal of the Corn Laws, peace and noninterventionist foreign policy, colonial policy, education, and social reform, and gathers the core case of nineteenth-century British free traders in their own words.

What's in it

46 chapters · 187,470 words · free to read here

  1. PREFACE
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. I.—: ENGLAND
  4. II.—: ENGLAND
  5. III.—: AMERICA
  6. I.—: THE PETITION OF THE MERCHANTS (1820)
  7. II.—: JOSEPH HUME’s SPEECH ON THE CORN LAWS, MAY 17, 1833
  8. III.—: THE MANCHESTER PETITION AGAINST THE CORN LAWS (1838)
  9. IV.—: REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS
  10. V.—: REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS
  11. VI.—: THE CORN LAWS AND COMPROMISE
  12. VII.—: THE IMPENDING SCARCITY
  13. VIII.—: ;THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS
  14. IX.—: THE LEAGUE AND SIR ROBERT PEEL
  15. X.: —AFTER REPEAL—THE LEAGUE DISSOLVES
  16. XI.—: FREE TRADE AND REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS
  17. XII.—: THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE
  18. WARS AND ARMAMENTS
  19. I.—: ARMAMENTS, RETRENCHMENT, AND FINANCIAL REFORM
  20. II.—: AN INTERNATIONAL REDUCTION OF NAVIES
  21. JOHN BRIGHT’S LETTER TO ABSALOM WATKIN
  22. IV.—: THE FRENCH TREATY AND ARMAMENTS.
  23. V.—: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA
  24. VI.—: THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA
  25. COLONIAL AND FISCAL POLICY
  26. I.—: THE RELATION OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POLICY TO FISCAL REFORM
  27. II.—: COLONIAL EXPENDITURE AND GOVERNMENT IN 1848
  28. III.—: THE PRUSSIAN ZOLLVEREIN IN 1840 By Richard Cobden
  29. The Prussian Commercial Union.
  30. IV.—: ON THE PROPOSED BRITISH ZOLLVEREIN, OR COMMERCIAL UNION WITH THE COLONIES
  31. I.—: COBDEN ON EDUCATION
  32. II.—: THE END AND AIM OF POLITICS
  33. III.—: THE MALT TAX, TEMPERANCE, AND RETRENCHMENT
  34. On the Results of Free Trade in England
  35. V.—: TO FARM LABOURERS ON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
  36. INDEX
  37. An Exhaustive -Review of Recent Scientific Progress. NEW CONCEPTIONS IN SCIENCE.
  38. The First Complete History of the American People from the Earliest Times to the Accession of President Roosevelt. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
  39. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
  40. IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ON BUSINESS & ECONOMICS. THE CITIZEN IN HIS RELATION TO THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.
  41. Andrew Carnegie's Last Word on Business and Modern Business Conditions. THE EMPIRE OF BUSINESS.
  42. EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
  43. IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ON COMMERCE.
  44. About Liberty Fund
  45. The Online Library of Liberty
  46. Copyright Information

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