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John Bright (Paperback)
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John Bright (Paperback)
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1898. A history of the career of John Bright, British statesman and
orator. Bright, a founder of the Anti-Corn Law League, rose to
prominence on the strength of his formidable oratory against the
corn laws. A staunch laissez-faire capitalist, and, with Richard
Cobden, a bastion of the Manchester school of economics, he
resented the protection given to landholders by these laws at the
expense of manufacturing interests. After the repeal of the corn
laws, Bright's principal concern was parliamentary reform, which he
pursued relentlessly until passage of the third Reform Bill. A
member of Parliament for Manchester he lost his seat because of his
opposition to British involvement in the Crimean War, which he
considered Unchristian and against Britain's economic interests. He
served in other capacities, until he resigned in protest against
intervention in Egypt for the same reasons that had led him to
oppose the Crimean War.
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