Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914

Volume III: 1880-1914
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-56518-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

The period between 1880 and 1914, the subject of this volume, sees increasing questioning of free trade, especially in those sectors impacted adversely by foreign competition, and within political circles, where the notion of protecting native industries shifted from an agricultural to an industrial base. There was a greater willingness, especially in the Conservative party, to consider it as a viable policy. The ‘constituencies’ or interest groups created by free trade however defended it fiercely among the Liberal party and in manufacturing industries, primarily those highly dependent on export markets. Debates on commercial policy in this period had another dimension which had been subsidiary in earlier periods—the colonial empire and the economic, political, and cultural ties with it promoted. The period between 1880 and 1914 was one where the language of empire was at its height and the economic relationship between the Mother Country and the colonies entered political debate in a forceful way.

The sources include several petitions from parliamentary papers attacking the system of commercial treaties pursued by the British government. Towards this end, extracts from the journal Fair Trade, and a body of newspaper material detailing extra-parliamentary movements against free trade, from the Leeds Mercury, Glasgow Herald, Pall Mall Gazette, and Daily Mail, are also included. Making the transition to the early twentieth century and the rise of the labour movement, printed sources such as Fabian tracts on tariff reform, as well as material from the International Free Trade Congress, are incorporated.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bannerman, Gordon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 3: 1880-1914

General Introduction

Volume 3 Introduction

1. Extract from W. Cunningham, The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times: laissez faire

2. Editorial on Mr. Wheelhouse’s Parliamentary Motion, Huddersfield Daily Chronicle

3. ‘British Trade with France’, Glasgow Herald

4. H. E. Crum-Ewing to Earl Granville, 29 November 1880, H. E. Crum-Ewing to Joseph Chamberlain, 29 November 1880, Evelyn Ashley to Messrs. Monteith & Kelly, 2 December 1880, Evelyn Ashley to T. D. Hill, 2 December 1880

5. ‘The Sugar Bounties Question. Professor Fawcett, Lord Derby, and Mr. Stewart M. P. on Bounties’

6. ‘Commercial Treaties’, Newcastle Courant

7. Memorial of the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom. To the Right Honourable Earl Granville, K.G., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 8 June 1881, in Representations from Chambers of Commerce and other commercial associations relative to the proposed new Commercial Treaty with France and the French tariff.

8. ‘Fair Trade’, North-Eastern Daily Gazette for Middlesborough

9. ‘The Protectionists’ New Departure’, Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review

10. Extract from Agatha Ramm (ed.), The Political Correspondence of Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville, 1876-1886

11. ‘Mr. Gladstone and the National Fair Trade League’, Leeds Mercury; Morning Post

12. Samuel Duncan to Winston Churchill, 19 October 1903

13. ‘Fair Trade meeting in the City of London’, Hampshire Advertiser

14. Extracts from Fair-Trade: a Weekly Journal devoted to Industry and Commerce

15. ‘The Government Defeat’, Fair-Trade: a Weekly Journal devoted to Industry and Commerce

16. ‘Fair Trade’, Daily News

17. ‘Election results’, Fair-Trade: a Weekly Journal devoted to Industry and Commerce

18. ‘The Fair Trade Bubble Pricked’, The North-Eastern Daily Gazette for Middlesborough

19. Peripatetic, ‘The National "Fair Trade League"’, Cambridge Independent Press and University Herald

20. Samuel Cunliffe Lister, England’s Folly: a paper read before the Silk Section of the Jubilee Exhibition, at Manchester, 21 October, 1887

21. Extract from ‘Lord R. Churchill on Fair Trade’, Standard

22. Lord Salisbury to George Goschen, 18 November 1887

23. ‘Conservative Conference at Oxford: the Free Trade Question’, Essex Standard

24. ‘John Bright – Past and Present’, Reynolds’s Newspaper

25. Harry Quelch, ‘Protection and Poverty’, Justice

26. Goldwin Smith to Lord Farrer, 22 and 30 June 1892

27. ‘Lord Salisbury’s attitude to Free Trade’, Pall Mall Gazette

28. Extract from F. P. de Labilliere, Federal Britain; or, Unity and Federation of the Empire

29. ‘Mr. Keir Hardie on the Labour Party’, Birmingham Daily Post; ‘Labour Politics’, Reynolds’s Newspaper

30. J. H. Round, ‘The Protectionist Revival’

31. Goldwin Smith to Lord Farrer, 28 July 1896; Lord Farrer to Goldwin Smith, 9 August 1896; Goldwin Smith to Lord Farrer, 22 September 1896

32. Sidney Low, ‘The Decline of Cobdenism’

33. Lawrence C. Tipper to Winston S. Churchill, 3 November 1902 & Lord Dudley to Winston Churchill, 9 November 1902

34. ‘A Tariff League: Important Declarations’, Henley Advertiser

35. J. A. Hobson, ‘The Inner Meaning of Protectionism’

36. Charles Ritchie to Winston Churchill, 1 June 1903 & Lord Hugh Cecil to Winston S. Churchill, 3 June 1903

37. Extract from Beatrice Webb Typescript Diary, 2 January 1901-10 February 1911

38. ‘The Man in the Street and Mr. Chamberlain’ and ‘Our Walking Inquirers’, Daily Mail

39. ‘The Food Taxes in East Anglia’ and ‘Our Walking Inquirers’, Daily Mail

40. Alexander M. Thompson, ‘The Trade Union Congress’; Fred Knee, ‘The Trades Union Congress’

41. George Bernard Shaw, Fabianism and the Fiscal Question: an Alternative Policy

42. ‘Prime Minister’s Manifesto: Address to Stirling Electors: Record of the Late Government’; ‘Free Fooders’ Election Addresses: the bogus cry of Home Rule’; ‘Mr. Loe Strachey on the issue’, Westminster Gazette

43. Lord Lansdowne to Arthur Balfour, 28 January & 4 February 1906

44. J. Bruce Glasier, ‘The Old Toryism’

45. Extract from W. A. S. Hewins, The Apologia of an Imperialist: Forty Years of the Empire Policy

46. Extract from W. A. S. Hewins, The Apologia of an Imperialist: Forty Years of the Empire Policy

47. Editorial, Morning Post

48. J. Keir Hardie, ‘Foreword’ in A. Cobden-Sanderson, Richard Cobden, and the Land of the People

49. Tariff Reform League, ‘Introduction: the Policy of the Tariff Reform League’

50. Extract from Beatrice Webb Typescript Diary, 2 January 1901-10 February 1911.

51. W. A. S. Hewins, ‘Tariff Reform and the Political Situation’

52. ‘What Lancashire Thinks’, Jarrow Express & Tyneside Advertiser

53. ‘No Referendum on Tariff Reform: Mr. Bonar Law on Unionist Policy. The Truth as to Food Duties, Agreement with the Colonies, No Increase in Cost of Living’, London Evening Standard

54. ‘Method and Principle: Tariff Reform League & Edinburgh Policy’, The Globe

55. Letter of ‘Free Trader’, Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser

56. ‘Politicians all Patriots’, West London Observer: the County Paper for Middlesex and Surrey

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Gordon Bannerman received his Ph.D. from King’s College London in 2005 and has an extensive publication record of books, articles, and reviews. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2015 for his contribution to historical scholarship. Dr. Bannerman has taught British history at the London School of Economics, Dundee University, and King’s College London. He currently teaches The History of Business and Government and Business at the University of Guelph-Humber, Ontario.