A History of English Corn Laws: From 1660-1846Routledge, 5 nov. 2013 - 352 pages First Published in 2005. A history of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 is part of the studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. |
Table des matières
| 1 | |
Chapter 2 The restoration corn laws | 8 |
Chapter 3 The revolt against the restoration corn laws | 23 |
Chapter 4 The faliure of the law of 1773 | 49 |
Chapter 5 The corn laws and the wars 1791 to 1813 | 68 |
Chapter 6 The enclosure movement and the corn laws | 99 |
Chapter 7 The corn law of 1815 | 117 |
Chapter 8 The law of 1815 in operation | 157 |
Chapter 10 The decline in interest in the corn laws from 1828to1838 | 219 |
Chapter 11 Cobden and the anticorn law league1838to1845 | 239 |
Chapter 12 Sir robert and the repeal of the corn laws | 272 |
chapter 13 Summary and conclusion | 284 |
Appendix | 294 |
Bibliography | 303 |
| 333 | |
Chapter 9 The agitation of the eighteentwenties | 185 |
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additional agitation agricultural distress Anti-Corn Law League arguments average price barley benefit bounty bread Britain British caused chapter Chartists classes Cobden commercial consideration corn bill Corn Laws Corn Trade crops deficient difficult effect enclosure England English exportation of grain farmers favour fields figures first five fixed duty flour fluctuating foreign corn foreign grain free trade George George III Hansard harvest House of Commons House of Lords Ibid importation increased industry influence landed interest landlords landowners Letter London Lord Lord John Russell low prices manufacturers measure pamphlets Parliament Parnell passed Peel period petitions poor ports price levels price of corn price of grain Price of Provisions price of wheat produce profits proposed protection quarter regulation rent repeal resolutions result Richard Cobden scarcity Select Committee session significance Sir Robert Peel speech sufficient supply tenants United Kingdom Whigs