عنوان

Free trade and its enemies in France, 1814-1851 /

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1107036933

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9781107036932

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Title Proper

Free trade and its enemies in France, 1814-1851 /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

David Todd, King's College London

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 275 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Ideas in Context ;

Volume Designation

112

Text of Note

Translation of the author's L'identité économique de la France

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-266) and index

Text of Note

The reactionary political economy of the bourbon restoration -- Economists, winegrowers and the dissemination of commercial liberalism -- Completing the revolution : political and commercial liberty after 1830 -- Inventing economic nationalism -- The contours of the national economy -- The englishness of free trade and the consolidation of protectionist dominance

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Text of Note

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international trade. This groundbreaking study is the first to examine this 'protectionist turn' in full. Faced with a reaffirmation of mercantile jealousy under the Bourbon Restoration, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste Say and regional publicists advocated the adoption of the liberty of commerce in order to consolidate the new liberal order. But after the Revolution of 1830 a new generation of liberal thinkers endeavoured to reconcile the jealousy of trade with the discourse of commercial society and political liberty. New justifications for protection oscillated between an industrialist reinvention of jealousy and an aspiration to self-sufficiency as a means of attenuating the rise of urban pauperism. A strident denunciation of British power and social imbalances served to defuse the internal tensions of the protectionist discourse and facilitated its dissemination across the French political spectrum

General Material Designation

Identité économique de la France.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

International trade-- 19th century

France, Commerce, History, 19th century

France, Economic conditions, 19th century

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Edition

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Book number

Todd, David,1978-

Date of Transaction

20180104060838.1

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