[PDF] The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel - National Bureau PDF w28142.rev0.pdf

Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was the signature trade policy event of the imported wheat directly protected British grain producers from foreign

The decision by Sir Robert Peel's government to abolish them in 1846 symbolizes Britain's decision to move unilaterally to free trade, and was the precursor to a period of Europe-wide trade liberalization which lasted from roughly 1860 to the late 1870s

[PDF] Constructing free trade: from Manchester boosterism to - Geography

process) to overrule national and local policy in the repeal of the British Corn Laws, in London on geography of the practice of free trade since 1846,

[PDF] Free Trade - Economic History Society

of the Victorian state; Britain's foreign and imperial economic policy under free trade; the After 1846, the idea of using tariff to British Free Trade, 1850-1914:

[PDF] 1846 and All That: the rise and fall of British wheat protection in the

movement towards free trade was a gradual process, starting in the 1820s and only serious breach in corn-law policy from beginning to end' and 'defiantly

w6904pdf - National Bureau of Economic Research

a structural break in the growth of British industrial production in that year ( 1815-1846), the spread of European free trade (1846-1860), the liberal period 9 This section draws heavily on the masterful account of global trade policy in