The rise of free trade imperialism : classical political economy, the empire of free trade and imperialism 1750-1850
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Bibliographic Information
The rise of free trade imperialism : classical political economy, the empire of free trade and imperialism 1750-1850
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-243) and index
Originally published: 1970
"First paperback edition 2004" -- T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period, the sources from which later theories of imperialism were constructed, and the character of the ideology which underlay the dismantling of the old colonial system and the construction of the Victorian Pax Britannica. The author discusses the development and diffusion of a number of the central arguments of the 'science' of political economy, from the standpoint of a historian rather than an economist, which were crucial not only to the construction of theories of capitalist imperialism, but also served as a spur both to efforts at colonization, and to establishing a British Workshop of the World.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theory and politics of Free Trade Empire in the eighteenth century
- 3. The agrarian critique and the emergence of orthodoxy
- 4. The third school: Wakefield and the radical economists
- 5. The Wakefield program for middle-class empire
- 6. Parliament, political economy, and the Workshop of the World
- 7. Cobdenism and the 'dismal science'
- 8. Mercantilist revival
- 9. Classical political economy, the Empire of Free Trade, and imperialism
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
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