Author: Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and ChandosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A History of English Corn Laws
Author: Donald Grove BarnesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136582584
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
A catalogue of the library of the Athenæum. [With] Suppl. 1,2 [and] additions to the library. 1859-93/95
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Author: Athenaeum club librA Catalogue of the Library of the Athenæum
Author: Athenæum Club (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...: C-Engineering. 1873
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
A History of the English Corn Laws, from 1600-1846
Author: Donald Grove BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn laws (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Protection and Politics
Author: Anna GamblesPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780861932443
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Examination of debate within the Conservative party over the principles of free trade. The complex and troubled relationship between protectionism and Conservatism in nineteenth-century Britain is the focus of this book. It looks at how the developing free-trade orthodoxy was challenged within Conservatism, and offers new perspectives on the intellectual controversies which precipitated the Conservative party's split of 1846 and the intricate denouement of 1846-52. In contrast to traditional accounts, it also seeks to explore the intellectual character of opposition to the evolving mid-Victorian consensus framed around free trade, laissez-faire and sound money, revealing how Conservatives debated key aspects of economic policy. Through an exhaustive reading of Conservative journals, pamphlets and contributions to parliamentary debates, the author is able to expose an alternative set of ideas about the direction of British economic and social change and the role of government in moulding it. Dr ANNA GAMBLES is lecturer in modern British history, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum
Author: All That Glittered
Author: Timothy AlbornPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190603534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy. In this rich and broad-ranging work, Timothy Alborn argues for a close connection between gold and Britain's national identity. Beginning with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which validated Britain's position as an economic powerhouse, and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia, Alborn draws on contemporary descriptions of gold's value to highlight its role in financial, political, and cultural realms. He begins by narrating British interests in gold mining globally to enable the smooth operation of the gold standard. In addition to explaining the metal's function in finance, he explores its uses in war expenditure, foreign trade, religious observance, and ornamentation at home and abroad. Britons criticized foreign cultures for their wasteful and inappropriate uses of gold, even as it became a prominent symbol of status in more traditional features of British society, including its royal family, aristocracy, and military. Although Britain had been ambivalent in its embrace of gold, ultimately it enabled the nation to become the world's most modern economy and to extend its imperial reach around the globe. All That Glittered tells the story of gold as both a marker of value and a valuable commodity, while providing a new window onto Britain's ascendance after the 1750s.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description