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The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism 1750-1850

By Bernard Semmel

Book information

Year
1970
ISBN
0521077257, 0511562225, 0521548152, 9780511562228, 9780521077255, 9780521548151
Open Library ID
OL22217687M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1592199 bytes)
Edition
1st Ed.
Pages
260\260
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period, the sources from which later theories of imperialism were constructed, and the character of the ideology which underlay the dismantling of the old colonial system and the construction of the Victorian Pax Britannica. The author discusses the development and diffusion of a number of the central arguments of the 'science' of political economy, from the standpoint of a historian rather than an economist, which were crucial not only to the construction of theories of capitalist imperialism, but also served as a spur both to efforts at colonization, and to establishing a British Workshop of the World.

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