History of the Anti-Corn Law League

by Archibald Prentice

Overview

First Published in 1968. This is Volume I of a series of 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136937255
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	454
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Archibald Prentice, W.H. Chaloner

Table of Contents

History of the Anti-Corn-Law League; Chapter 1 1832.—Assertion of free-trade principles.; Chapter 2 THE ELECTION FOR MANCHESTER.; Chapter 3 THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.; Chapter 4 AN ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.; Chapter 5 ORIGIN OF THE LEAGUE.; Chapter 6 MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.; Chapter 7 PROGRESS.; Chapter 8 DELEGATE MEETING IN LONDON.; Chapter 9 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LEAGUE.; Chapter 10 THE CAMPAIGN FOR 1840.; Chapter 11 FURTHER MOVEMENT IN 1840.; Chapter 12 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1841.; Chapter 13 MOVEMENTS IN THE BOROUGHS.; Chapter 14 CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATION.; Chapter 15 CHANGE OF MINISTRY.; Chapter 16 CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF RELIGION.; Chapter 17 MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.; Chapter 18 DELEGATES AT MANCHESTER.; Chapter 19 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1842.; Chapter 20 MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.; Chapter 21 SIR R. PEEL’S NEW SLIDING SCALE.; Chapter 22 THE NEW TARIFF.; Chapter 23 DELEGATION TO SIR ROBERT PEEL.; Chapter 24 FORMIDABLE TURN-OUT.; Chapter 25 TEACHINGS OF THE LEAGUE.; Chapter 26 SOIREES IN OTHER PLACES.; History of the Anti-Corn-Law League; Chapter 27 OPENING OF THE FREE TRADE HALL.; Chapter 28 THE GREAT GATHERING.; Chapter 29 FEAR OF ASSASSINATION.; Chapter 30 DRURY LANE MEETINGS.; Chapter 31 THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS.; Chapter 32 THE DIVISION ON MR. VILLIERS’ MOTION.; Chapter 33 MR. BRIGHT’S RETURN TO PARLIAMENT.; Chapter 34 MR. PATTISON’S ELECTION FOR LONDON.; Chapter 35 THE CAMPAIGN OF 1844.; Chapter 36 THE QUESTION BEFORE PARLIAMENT.; Chapter 37 MR. VILLIERS’ MOTION, 1844.; Chapter 38 ADJOURNED DEBATE.; Chapter 39 INCENDIARISM.; Chapter 40 DUDLEY ELECTION.; Chapter 41 THE REGISTRATION AND FREEHOLD MOVEMENT.; Chapter 42 PREPARING FOR PARLIAMENT, 1845.; Chapter 43 THE BUDGET.; Chapter 44 THE BAZAAR.; Chapter 45 LORD JOHN RUSSELL’S RESOLUTIONS.; Chapter 46 MR. VILLIERS’ MOTION.; Chapter 47 HARVEST PROSPECTS.; Chapter 48 FREE TRADE HALL MEETING.; Chapter 49 THE NEW MEASURES.; Chapter 50 TERMINATION OF THE CONTEST.;