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.
In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international trade.
... taste ” should be considered a major asset in global com- petition may seem far - fetched , but it was widely shared ... luxury , since good taste was determined by fashion , and luxury gov- erned fashion.13 This dichotomy would have ...
This volume is a collection of materials relating to the major nineteenth century debates about external trade. It includes some extremely rare but representative pieces from less well-known names.
See Linda Colley, 'Gendering the Global: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis', Past & Present 209 (2010): ... See notably O'Bryen, View of the Treaty of Commerce, 3–5; [Joseph Richardson], A Complete Investigation of Mr ...
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Free Trade: Or, The Meanes to Make Trade Florish
Throughout the eighteenth and early nineteeenth centuries, French regimes developed strategies to control the crucial grain trade.
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As William Freehling has persuasively argued, however, the tariff question and slavery agitation had largely become “intermeshed” by the earlier crisis of nullification. William W. Freehling, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification ...
This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.