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(1873-1953)
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Editor/Trans.
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First Pub. Date
1820
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Publisher/Edition
London: Harper and Brothers
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Pub. Date
1903
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Comments
Collected essays and speeches by various writers, including Richard Cobden and John Bright, 1820-1896
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| Cover Table of Contents |
| About the Book and Author |
| Preface |
| Introduction |
| PART I England, Ireland, and America |
| I.I England (Cobden essay, 1845) |
| I.II Ireland (Cobden essay, 1845, continued) |
| I.III America (Cobden essay, 1845, continued) |
| PART II The Corn Laws and Free Trade |
| II.I The Petition of the Merchants (1820) |
| II.II Joseph Hume's Speech on the Corn Laws, May 17, 1833 |
| II.III The Manchester Petition Against the Corn Laws (1838) |
| II.IV Repeal of the Corn Laws (Cobden speech, 1843) |
| II.V Repeal of the Corn Laws (Fox speech, 1843) |
| II.VI The Corn Laws and Compromise (Fox speech, 1844) |
| II.VII The Impending Scarcity (Fox speech, 1845) |
| II.VIII The Repeal of the Corn Laws (Bright speech, 1845) |
| II.IX The League and Sir Robert Peel (Cobden speech, 1846) |
| II.X After Repeal—The League Dissolves (Cobden speech, 1852) |
| II.XI Free Trade and Reduction of Armaments (Cobden speech, 1847) |
| II.XII The Taxes on Knowledge (Gibson speech, 1852) |
| PART III Wars and Armaments |
| III.I Armaments, Retrenchment, and Financial Reform (Cobden speech, 1849) |
| III.II An International Reduction of Navies (Cobden speech, 1851) |
| III.III On the Crimean War and the Patriotism of Its Opponents (letter from Bright to Watkin, 1854) |
| III.IV The French Treaty and Armaments (Cobden speech, 1861) |
| III.V The Civil War in America (Bright speech, 1863) |
| III.VI The Civil War in America (Cobden speech, 1862) |
| PART IV Colonial and Fiscal Policy |
| IV.I The Relation of Foreign and Colonial Policy to Fiscal Reform (letter from Cobden to Gladstone, 1848) |
| IV.II Colonial Expenditure and Government in 1848 (Molesworth speech, 1848) |
| IV.III The Prussian Zollverein in 1840 (Cobden letter, 1840) |
| IV.IV On the Proposed British Zollverein or Commercial Union with the Colonies (Farrer essay, 1896) |
| PART V Social Reform |
| V.I Cobden on Education (Cobden speech, 1851) |
| V.II The End and Aim of Politics (Fox speech, 1853) |
| V.III The Malt Tax, Temperance, and Retrenchment (Cobden speech, 1864) |
| V.IV Wages and Cheap Food (Bright letter, 1884) |
| V.V To Farm Labourers on Agricultural Policy (Bright letter, 1884) |
| Footnotes |
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