First Published in 2005. A history of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 is part of the studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV GENERAL RESULTS I Propose, in conclusion, to make a rapid survey of the principal results of the historical inquiry, and to consider very briefly what bearing they may have on the present condition of affairs. At the present time, and indeed for the last sixty years, the term corn laws has been applied so exclusively to the duties on import, that the fact is overlooked that restraints on imports were only part, and for centuries not the most important part, of the Corn Law system. Up to nearly the end of the eighteenth century, England was on the average an exporting country, and the bounty on the export of corn was 147 not actually repealed till 1814. It is true that by this time the bounty was altogether inoperative, but, in the opinion of Tooke, up to this same date the restraints on imports had also been inoperative. This narrowing of the interpretation of the Corn Laws to protective import duties has also been accompanied by a corresponding narrowing of the real interests involved in the agitation for the repeal of these duties. A wider historical survey shows that the Corn Law, even when reduced to protective import duties, was itself complex, and part of a system still more complex. This complex system of regulation of all kinds of trades and industries had begun to break up under the pressure of natural economic forces, and had been subjected to political attack and legislative modification long before any serious attempt was made to repeal the restrictions on the import of corn. Huskisson, when effecting a series of reforms in the direction of Free Trade in 1823 to 1825, declined to interfere with the Corn Laws. Peel's great budget of 1842, which was the basis of the fiscal revolution that culminated in i860, did so...

A chronological record of English corn laws from the Restoratin in 1660 to the repeal of the Corn laws in 1846. "An attempt is made in the case of each law passed and of each measure agitated to determine what social forces and classes favoured or opposed the proposal. The operation of the different laws, or groups of laws which made up a system, is also studied both from the point of view of contemporary opinion and from such statistics as are available for each period.--Author's preface.

Excerpt from The History of the English Corn Laws In preparing the lectures, I undertook a somewhat extended reading, and I have been especially indebted to the following: Dr. W. Cunningham's Growth of English Industry and Commerce; Tooke's Historyof Prices Porter's Progress of the Nation Mr. A. L. Bowley's Wages 1n the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century; Mr. Morley's Lives of Gladstone and Cobden; Mr. C. S. Parker's. Life of Peel' the pamphlets by Malthus, Ricardo, West, etc., in the great controversy on the Corn Laws and the nature of rent about 1814-15 W. Naudé's Getreidehandels politik der europaischen Staaten vom 13 bis zum 18 Jahrhundert G. Schanz's Englische Handelspolitik gegen Ende des Mittelalters various blue-books and official publications, especially the report published in 1897 on the Customs Tariff of the United Kingdom from 1800 to 1897, with notes on the more important branches of receipt from the year 1660; the so-called fiscal blue-book of 1903; the report by Mr. Wilson Fox (1900) on agricultural wages and labour the essay on the Corn Laws by macculloch, appended to his edition of the Wealth of Nations and, needless to say, the Wealth of Nations itself. Mr. A. B. Clark, m.a., has kindly revised the proofs, and verified references. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.