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Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism - Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays (Hardcover, New edition)
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Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism - Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modern Economic and Social History
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Richard Cobden (1804-1865) rose from humble beginnings to become
the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and
liberalism. As a fierce opponent of the Corn Laws and promoter of
international trade he rapidly became an influential figure on the
national stage, whose name became a byword for political and
economic reform. Yet, despite the familiarity with which
contemporaries and historians refer to 'Cobdenism', his ideals and
beliefs are not always easy to identify and classify in a coherent
way. Indeed, as this volume makes clear, the variety, diversity and
malleability of the 'Cobdenite project' attest to the lack of a
strict dogma and highlight Cobden's underlying pragmatism. Divided
into five sections, this collection of essays offers a timely
reassessment of Cobden's career, its impact and legacy in the two
hundred years since his birth. Beginning with an investigation into
the intellectual and cultural background to his emergence as a
national political figure, the volume then looks at Cobden's impact
of the making of Victorian liberal politics.The third section
develops many insights from Cobden's European Tour of 1846-47 which
was in many ways a defining moment not only in the making of
Cobden's liberalism but in the making of liberal Europe. Section
four broadens the theme of Cobden's contemporary international
impact, including his contribution to the debate on
internationalism, India, the empire and the American Civil War;
whilst the final section opens up the theme of Cobden's contested
legacy, the variety of interpretations of Cobden's ideas and how
their influence on late nineteenth and early twentieth century
politics. Offering a broad yet coherent investigation of the
'Cobdenite project' by leading international scholars, this volume
provides a fascinating insight into one of the nineteenth century's
most important figures whose ideas still resonate today.
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