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Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School
Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School, by Francis Wrigley Hirst (1873–1953), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Prefaceprose
- 02Introductionprose
- 03England, Ireland, and America, I.—: Englandprose
- 04England, Ireland, and America, Ii.—: Englandprose
- 05England, Ireland, and America, Iii.—: Americaprose
- 06Part II: The Corn Laws and Free Trade, I.—: The Petition of the Merchants (1820)prose
- 07Ii.—: Joseph HUME’s Speech on the Corn Laws, May 17, 1833prose
- 08Iii.—: The Manchester Petition Against the Corn Laws (1838)prose
- 09Iv.—: Repeal of the Corn Lawsprose
- 10V.—: Repeal of the Corn Lawsprose
- 11Vi.—: The Corn Laws and Compromiseprose
- 12Vii.—: The Impending Scarcityprose
- 13Viii.—: ;The Repeal of the Corn Lawsprose
- 14Ix.—: The League and Sir Robert Peelprose
- 15X.: —After Repeal—the League Dissolvesprose
- 16Xi.—: Free Trade and Reduction of Armamentsprose
- 17Xii.—: The Taxes on Knowledgeprose
- 18Part III: Wars and Armaments, Wars and Armamentsprose
- 19I.—: Armaments, Retrenchment, and Financial Reformprose
- 20Ii.—: An International Reduction of Naviesprose
- 21John Bright’s Letter to Absalom Watkinprose
- 22Iv.—: The French Treaty and Armaments.prose
- 23V.—: The CIVIL War in Americaprose
- 24Vi.—: The CIVIL War in Americaprose
- 25Part IV: Colonial and Fiscal Policy, Colonial and Fiscal Policyprose
- 26I.—: The Relation of Foreign and Colonial Policy to Fiscal Reformprose
- 27Ii.—: Colonial Expenditure and Government in 1848prose
- 28Iii.—: The Prussian Zollverein in 1840 By Richard Cobdenprose
- 29The Prussian Commercial Union.prose
- 30Iv.—: On the Proposed British Zollverein, or Commercial Union with the Coloniesprose
- 31Part V: Social Reform, I.—: Cobden on Educationprose
- 32Ii.—: The End and Aim of Politicsprose
- 33Iii.—: The Malt Tax, Temperance, and Retrenchmentprose
- 34Iv.—: Wages and Cheap Food, On the Results of Free Trade in Englandprose
- 35V.—: To Farm Labourers on Agricultural Policyprose
- 36The First Complete History of the American People from the Earliest Times to the Accession of President Roosevelt. A HISprose
- 37Electrical Engineering.prose
- 38Educational Foundations of Trade and Industry.prose
- 39Important New Works on Commerce.prose