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Following the Second World War, the United States would become the leading 'neoliberal' proponent of international trade liberalization. Yet for nearly a century before, American foreign trade policy was dominated by extreme economic nationalism. What brought about this pronounced ideological, political, and economic about face? How did it affect Anglo-American imperialism? What were the repercussions for the global capitalist order? In answering these questions, The 'Conspiracy' of Free Trade offers the first detailed account of the controversial Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. The book reinterprets Anglo-American imperialism through the global interplay between Victorian free-trade cosmopolitanism and economic nationalism, uncovering how imperial expansion and economic integration were mired in political and ideological conflict. Beginning in the 1840s, this conspiratorial struggle over political economy would rip apart the Republican Party, reshape the Democratic Party, and redirect Anglo-American imperial expansion for decades to come.Read more
- Evaluates the Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century
- Connects the history of ideas with the history of political economy
- Proposes a new interpretation of American imperialism
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- Date Published: February 2016
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107109124
- length: 331 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.67kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Globalizing ideologies: economic nationalism and free-trade cosmopolitanism, c.1846–60
2. 'The most successful lie in history': the Morrill Tariff and the Confederacy's free-trade diplomacy
3. Mobilizing free trade: the postbellum free-trade movement, foreign policy, and 'conspiracy', 1866–71
4. Fighting over free trade: party realignment and the imperialism of economic nationalism, 1872–84
5. The great debate: the first Cleveland presidency, free-trade culture, and the anti-imperialism of free trade, 1885–9
6. The cosmopolitan demand for North American commercial union, 1885–9
7. 'A sea of fire': the McKinley Tariff and the imperialism of economic nationalism, 1889–93
8. Free trade in retreat: the global impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire, 1890–4
9. Republican rapprochement: Cleveland's free traders, Anglo-American relations, and the 1896 presidential elections
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