Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 Free Trade and High Wages -- The economics of the Anti-Corn Law League -- 2 Gladstone, Peel and the Corn Laws -- 3 Comments on Kadish and Maloney -- 4 Peel, Rotten Potatoes and Providence -- The repeal of the Corn Laws and the Irish Famine -- 5 Interests, Ideology and Politics -- Agricultural trade policy in nineteenth-century Britain and Germany -- 6 Comments on Kinealy and Schonhardt-Bailey -- 7 Merchant City -- The Manchester business community, the trade cycle and commercial policy, c.1820-1846 -- 8 'Ein Stück Englands'? -- A contrast between the free-trade movements in Hamburg and Manchester -- 9 Comments on Lloyd-Jones and Breuilly -- 10 The Reciprocity Debate in Parliament, 1842-1846 -- 11 The Reception of a Political Economy of Free Trade -- The case of Sweden -- 12 Comments on Irwin and Magnusson -- 13 Free Trade and the Victorians -- 14 'Time is Bearing Another Son' -- Tariff reform and imperial apocalypse -- 15 Comments on Howe and Sykes -- 16 Free Trade, Social Reform and Imperialism -- J.A.Hobson and the dilemmas of Liberalism, 1890-1914 -- 17 Insular Free Trade, Retaliation, and the Most-Favoured-Nation Treaty, 1880-1914 -- 18 Comments on Cain and Marrison -- 19 The Sources and Origins of Britain's Return to Protection, 1931-2 -- 20 Comments on Capie -- 21 The End of Free Trade -- Protection and the exchange rate regime between the world wars -- 22 Shaping the Lessons of History -- Britain and the rhetoric of American trade policy, 1930-1960 -- 23 Comments on Foreman-Peck, Hughes Hallet and Ma and On Clavin.