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First Published in 1968. This is Volume I of a series of studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.
Chapter I 1832.—Assertion of Free-Trade Principles; Chapter II The Election for Manchester; Chapter III The New House of Commons; Chapter IV An Anti-Corn-Law Association; Chapter V Origin of the League; Chapter VI Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce; Chapter VII Progress; Chapter VIII Delegate Meeting in London; Chapter IX Establishment of the League; Chapter X The Campaign for 1840; Chapter XI Further Movement in 1840; Chapter XII The Campaign of 1841; Chapter XIII Movements in the Boroughs; Chapter XIV Change of Administration; Chapter XV Change of Ministry; Chapter XVI Conference of Ministers of Religion; Chapter XVII Meeting of Parliament; Chapter XVIII Delegates at Manchester; Chapter XIX The Campaign of 1842; Chapter XX Meeting of Parliament; Chapter XXI Sir R. Peel’s New Sliding Scale; Chapter XXII The New Tariff; Chapter XXIII Delegation to Sir Robert Peel; Chapter XXIV Formidable Turn-Out; Chapter XXV Teachings of the League; Chapter XXVI Soirees in Other Places;
Biography
Archibald Prentice, W. H. Chaloner
