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The Letters of Richard Cobden - Volume II: 1848-1853 (Hardcover, New)
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The Letters of Richard Cobden - Volume II: 1848-1853 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Letter of Richard Cobden
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The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) aims in four printed
volumes to provide the first critical edition of Cobden's letters,
publishing the complete text in as near the original form as
possible, accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, together with an
introduction to each volume re-assessing Cobden's importance in
their light. As a whole these volumes will 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 second volume, drawing on over fifty archives world-wide,
follows the career of Richard Cobden from that of the 'Manchester
Manufacturer' who had gained celebrity in the repeal of the Corn
Laws in 1846 to that of the dominant Radical leader on the British
political scene between 1848 and 1853, widely considered by
contemporaries equal in importance to the leaders of the Whig and
Conservative parties. Cobden in this period was concerned with an
inter-connected series of movements which sought in different ways
to reduce aristocratic power in Victorian Britain. These included
the reform of parliament (especially through the secret ballot), of
landownership, of government finances, of the British empire, as
well as the introduction of state education. At the same time we
see the emergence of Cobden "the International Man," with a
cosmopolitan following, playing a pivotal role in the global peace
movement, and articulating a wide-ranging critique of British
foreign policy, with regard to the dangers of French invasion, the
aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, British expansionism in
India, and the ramifications of the Eastern Question as Britain
drifted towards war in the Crimea. Although in his own day,
Cobden's radical ideas increasingly separated him from many
contemporaries, in the longer term they became a vital tributary of
nineteenth-century British and international liberalism.
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