International Trade and Political Institutions: Instituting Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Fiona McGillivray
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2001 - Political Science - 242 pages
This work presents a study of trade politics, including theoretically rigorous historical analysis of international political economy and four important case studies. The book links the fields of economics, political economy and history. Earlier versions

Contents

Tariffs and modern political institutions an introduction
1
Agreeable duties the tariff treaty regime in the nineteenth century
29
Trading free and opening markets
80
Irish potatoes Indian corn and British politics interests ideology heresthetic and the Repeal of the Corn Laws
99
The strategic use of ideas nationalizing the interest in the nineteenth century
146
A unifying theory of interests institutions and ideas? Concluding remarks
198
References
213
Index
239
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The late Fiona McGillivray, formerly of the Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, US, Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, Oxford University and Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, Robert Pahre, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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