Imprinting Modern Liberalism: Empire, Financial Capitalism and the Economist, 1843-1938
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2013

My dissertation brings a new approach to studies of liberalism and empire by examining their treatment in a publication with a crucial yet overlooked stake in both, the Economist. Founded in London in 1843, its mission statement was tailored to the needs of the Anti-Corn Law League, then seeking to convert the City of London to Free Trade. Its own fortunes have been tied to this center of the British and world economies ever since. As such the Economist was soon required reading not only for ban