From the corn laws to free trade : interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective / / Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828806003321
• Autore: Schonhardt-Bailey Cheryl <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-262-29198-3; 1-282-09755-5; 9786612097553; 0-262-28320-4; 1-4294-7767-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Disciplina: 382/.71094109034
• Soggetti: Corn laws (Great Britain) - History - 19th century; Free trade - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-408) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction: The Puzzle -- 2 - Interests, Ideas, and Institutions Simpli.ed: A Demand- and Supply-Side Perspective -- I The Demand Side: The League, the Landowners, and Free Trade -- 3 - Lessons in Lobbying for Free Trade: To Concentrate or Not -- 4 - Nationalizing the Interest in Free Trade -- 5 - The Waning Demand for Protection: Portfolio Diversi.cation of Landowners -- 6 - Votes in Parliament, Dissected into Ideology, Party, and Interests -- II The Supply Side -- 7 - Conservatives Who Sounded Like Trustees but Voted Like Delegates -- 8 - Repeal in Historical Context: Key Parliamentary Debates on the Corn Laws before 1846 -- 9 - Free Trade's Last Hurdle: Why the Lords Acquiesced -- 10 - Feeling the Heat of the League? How Local Newspapers Affected MPs' Voting on Repeal -- 11 - Concluding Thoughts on Repeal and the Road to Democratic Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Summary Table of All Regression Variables and Further Details on Measuring District Trade Orientation -- Appendix 2: Speakers 22 January to 15 May 1846 in the Debates on the Customs and Corn ; Importation Bill -- Appendix 3: Characteristics of Members of Parliament, 1815 to 1828 -- Appendix 4: Details of Parliamentary Proceedings, 1814 to 1846 -- Appendix 5: Details of Members of Parliament Sampled for Newspaper Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis.