E-book
From the corn laws to free trade : interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective
Record details
- ISBN: 9780262195430
- ISBN: 0262195437
- ISBN: 9781429477673
- ISBN: 9781282097551
- ISBN: 9780262283205
- ISBN: 1429477679
- ISBN: 1282097555
- ISBN: 0262283204
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Computer data. - Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-408) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |
