2 options
Free trade and its enemies in France, 1814-1851 / David Todd, King's College London.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Todd, David, 1978- author.
- Series:
- Ideas in context ; 112.
- Ideas in context ; 112
- Standardized Title:
- Identité économique de la France. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International trade--19th century.
- International trade.
- France--Economic conditions--19th century.
- France.
- France--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Free Trade & its Enemies in France, 1814-1851
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-316-28801-3
- 1-108-74184-3
- 1-316-32214-9
- 1-316-30876-6
- 1-316-32548-2
- 1-316-32882-1
- 1-316-33216-0
- 1-316-31878-8
- 1-139-56840-X
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.