Free trade nation
Subtitle: commerce, consumption, and civil society in modern Britain
By: Frank Trentmann.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780199209200
Subjects: Free trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
First sentence: In early June 1904 ten thousand people gathered at Alexandra Palace in north London.
Description: Britain was a unilateral free-trade nation from the mid 19th century until WWI.  This book shows how  free-trade policies went from almost total support to almost total rejection over the course of those years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Free trade stories; title: Bread and circuses; title: Uneasy globalizers; title: Consumers divided; title: Visible hands; title: Losing interest; title: Final days.