Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden
Author: Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
Author: John BrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
Author: Richard CobdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Speeches on Questions of Public Policy
Author: Richard CobdenSpeeches on Questions of Public Policy ... Edited by John Bright and James E. Thorold Rogers. [With a portrait.]
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Author: Richard CobdenSpeeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden
Author: The Letters of Richard Cobden
Author: Richard CobdenPublisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199211973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The third volume of Cobden's Letters covers the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the preliminary negotiations over the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1860. It reveals the tension between public and private life experienced by Cobden from 1854 until 1859.
On the Probable Fall in the Value of Gold
Author: Michel ChevalierPublisher:
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Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Beacon of Freedom
Author: G. D. LillibridgePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512817686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The faith of a people in their greater destiny has been a propelling force of considerable power in the history of the world. In it s more perfect form, this ideal has spurred on the American people to their own higher good and, at the same time, been an inspiration for good on the efforts of others as well. By the end of the eighteenth century, Americans were firmly committed to the belief that the fate of freedom here was to determine the fate of freedom everywhere. And in the nineteenth century, the American destiny to lead the world out of ignorance and misery and onto the high plateaus of human happiness was not only accepted in American but was welcomed with hosannas by innumerable Europeans. This volume studies the impact of American destiny on Great Britain in the middle years of the nineteenth century—a period during which an uneasy struggle for power and place was engulfing the masses of the people, the new industrial middle class, and the conservative defenders of the old landed regime. This book seeks to trace American influence by determining what English people of varied station and opinion thought about the American democracy and how their ideas about American became drawn into and influenced their own experiences. Here is the real American destiny.
The Letters of Richard Cobden: 1860-1865
Author: Richard CobdenPublisher: Letter of Richard Cobden
ISBN: 0199211981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865) provides, in four printed volumes, the first critical edition of Cobden's letters, publishing the complete text in as near the original form as possible. The letters are accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, together with an introduction to each volume which re-assesses Cobden's importance in their light. Together, these volumes make available a unique source of the understanding of British liberalism in its European and international contexts, throwing new light on issues such as the repeal of the Corn Laws, British radical movements, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-French relations, and the American Civil War. The fourth and final volume, drawing on some forty-six archives worldwide, is dominated by Cobden's search for a permanent political legacy at home and abroad, following the severe check to his health in the autumn of 1859. In January 1860, he succeeded in negotiating the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty, a landmark in Anglo-French relations designed to bind the two nations closer together, and to provide the basis for a Europe united by free trade. Yet the Treaty's benefits were threatened by a continuing naval arms race between Britain and France, fuelled by what Cobden saw as self-interested scare mongering in his tract The Three Panics (1862). By 1862 an even bigger danger was the possibility that British industry's need for cotton might precipitate intervention in the American Civil War. Much of Cobden's correspondence now centred on the necessity of non-intervention and a campaign for the reform of international maritime law, while he played a major part in attempts to alleviate the effects of the 'Cotton Famine' in Lancashire. In addition to Anglo-American relations, Cobden, the 'International Man', continued to monitor the exercise of British power around the globe. He was convinced that the 'gunboat' diplomacy of his prime antagonist, Lord Palmerston, was ultimately harmful to Britain, whose welfare demanded limited military expenditure and the dismantling of the British 'colonial system'. Known for a long time as the 'prophet in the wilderness', in 1864 Cobden welcomed Palmerston's inability to intervene in the Schleswig-Holstein crisis as a key turning-point in Britain's foreign policy, which, together with the imminent end of the American Civil War, opened up the prospect of a new reform movement at home. Disappointed with the growing apathy of the entrepreneurs he had once mobilised in the Anti-Corn Law League, Cobden now promoted the enfranchisement of the working classes as necessary and desirable in order to achieve the reform of the aristocratic state for which he had campaigned since the 1830s.