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Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914 - Volume III: 1880-1914 (Hardcover)
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Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914 - Volume III: 1880-1914 (Hardcover)
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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.
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