Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays

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Contents: General editor's preface Preface Introduction, Anthony Howe. Part 1 From 'Manchester Manufacturer' to English Hero: Phrenological friends: Cobden and his 'father confessor' George Combe, David Stack From warehouse clerk to Corn Law celebrity: the making of a national hero, Simon Morgan. Part 2 Cobden and Liberal Politics in Britain: Cobden and democracy, Roland Quinault Cobden, free trade, and the road to the Abbey National, F.M.L. Thompson Cobden and the press, David Brown. Part 3 Reconfiguring the Political Economy of Liberal Europe: La Ligue FranA aise: the Anti-Corn Law League and campaign for economic liberalism in France during the last years of the July Monarchy, Alex Tyrrell The Cobdenian moment in the Italian Risorgimento, Roberto Romani 'Not entirely a Manchester man': Richard Cobden and the construction of Manchesterism in 19th-century German economic thinking, Detlev Mares Greek responses to Cobden, Pandeleimon Hionidis. Part 4 Reconstructing the 'International Man': Cobden: the international man, Keith Robbins Cobden and peace, Martin Ceadel Richard Cobden's American quandary: negotiating peace, free trade, and anti-slavery, Stephen Meardon. Part 5 Reinventing Richard Cobden: 'You know your father's heart'. The Cobden sisterhood and the legacy of Richard Cobden, Sarah Richardson Between feudalists and communists: Louis Mallet and the Cobden creed, Donald Winch The resurrection and decomposition of Cobden in Britain and the west: an essay in the politics of reputation, Frank Trentmann. Index.

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