Subject category:
Economics, Politics and Business Environment
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 22 February 2001
Length: 26 pages
Data source: Published sources
Abstract
Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in nineteenth-century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British agriculture for almost 200 years. With landowners and industrialists battling fiercely over the issues, nearly everyone agreed that the decision would be momentous.
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Other setting(s):
1800-1845
Subject category:
Economics, Politics and Business Environment
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 27 March 2001
Length: 20 pages
Data source: Published sources
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Abstract
Examines the extended conflict between free traders and protectionists in nineteenth-century Britain. It culminates with Prime Minister Robert Peel's decision at the end of 1845 about whether to repeal the Corn Laws, a series of acts that had protected British agriculture for almost 200 years. With landowners and industrialists battling fiercely over the issues, nearly everyone agreed that the decision would be momentous.
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Other setting(s):
1800-1845
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Subject category:
Economics, Politics and Business Environment
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 27 March 2001
Length: 20 pages
Data source: Published sources