"Corn laws (Great Britain) History 19th century." . . "Großbritannien" . . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Exports & Imports." . . "Grossbritannien" . . "Großbritannien." . "Handelsrecht." . . "Gran Bretaña" . . "Comercio exterior Regulación Gran Bretaą Historia Siglo 19o." . . "Gran Bretanya" . . "Protektionismus." . . "Außenhandelsliberalisierung" . . "Gran Bretagna - Commercio - Storia - Sec.19." . . "Politieke geschiedenis." . . "Gran Bretaña. Parlamento" . . "1800 - 1901" . . "Libre-échange Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle." . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . . "From the Corn Laws to Free Trade Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective"@en . . . . . . . "From the corn laws to free trade interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective"@en . "From the corn laws to free trade interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic resource"@en . . . . . "\"The repeal of Britain's Corn Laws in 1846--one of the most important economic policy decisions of the nineteenth century--has long intrigued and puzzled political scientists, historians, and economists. Why would a Conservative prime minister act against his own party's interests? The Conservatives entered government in 1841 with a strong commitment to protecting agriculture; five years later, the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel presided over repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws, violating party principles and undercutting the economic interests of the land-owning aristocracy. Only a third of Conservative members of Parliament supported the repeal legislation and within a month of repeal, Peel's government fell. The Conservatives remained out of power for decades. In this definitive book, Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey examines the interacting forces that brought about the abrupt beginning of Britain's free-trade empire. Using a wide variety of methodological tools to measure both qualitative and quantitative data (including computer-assisted content analysis of thousands of pages of parliamentary debates), Schonhardt-Bailey concludes that economic interests provided the momentum behind repeal, a momentum that overshadowed almost all else. Indeed, as part of a broader momentum of democratic reform, these same interests, left unsatisfied, may easily have snowballed into revolution--as Sir Robert Peel and others feared. But interests alone did not explain why reform rather than revolution emerged in mid-nineteenth century Britain. In order to resolve more fully the long-standing puzzle of repeal, Schonhardt-Bailey traces the overlapping and intertwined forces of interest, ideas, and institutions.\"--Publisher's website." . . . . . "The overlapping and interacting forces that caused a Conservative government to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws against its own political principles and economic interests: extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis."@en . . "History" . . . "History"@en . . . . . . . . "From the corn laws to free trade : intersts, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective" . . . . "From the corn laws to free trade : interests, ideas, and institutions in historical perspective" . . . . . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Corn laws" . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS International Marketing." . . "Grande-Bretagne" . . "Free trade Great Britain History 19th century." . . "Politische Ökonomie." . . "Institutionalismus" . . "Lliurecanvisme Gran Bretanya Història S. XIX." . . "Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901" . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE International Relations Trade & Tariffs." . . "Getreidehandel Grossbritannien Wirtschaftspolitik Regierung Geschichte 1837-1901." . . "Geschiedenis van het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Ierland." . . . . "Interessenpolitik" . . "Getreidehandel." . . "Freihandel." . . "Libre-échange Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle." . . "anno 1800-1899" . . "Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland." . . "Corn-laws (Histoire de Grande-Bretagne)." . . "Corn-laws (Histoire de Grande-Bretagne)" . "Libera concorrenza - Gran Bretagna - Storia - Sec.19." . . "Corn-Laws (Grande-Bretagne) Histoire 19e siècle." . . "Corn laws (Gran Bretanya) Història S. XIX." . . "Internationale financiën." . . "1800 - 1899" . . "Geschichte" . . "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS International General." . . "Gran Bretaą Parlamento" . . "Libre comercio Historia Gran Bretaña Siglo XIX." . . "Great Britain" . . "Gran Bretaą" . . "Vrijhandel." . . "Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl" . .