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• Preface
• The Manchester School of Economics
• Introduction: Manchester Revisited
• 1: What the School Was
• 2: The Economists and the School
• 3: The Corn Laws
• 4: The Campaign For Repeal
• 5: Why the Laws Were Repealed
• 6: The School After Repeal
• Bibliography
• I.: The School, Its Leaders, and the Ideas
• II.: The Repeal Campaign
• The League
• The Struggle
• III.: The Period, the People, and Their Ideas
• The Economist
• The Non-conformist
• IV.: The Economists On the Corn Laws

The Economist

• Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. Translated by Florence Kelley Wishnewetzky. London, 1892.
• Fay, C. R. The Corn Laws and Social England. Cambridge, 1932.
• Fetter, Frank Whitson. “The Authorship of Economic Articles in the Edinburgh Review, 1802-47,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 61, No. 3 (June 1953), pp. 232-59.
• ———. “Economic Articles in the Quarterly Review and their Authors, 1809-52,” ibid., Vol. 66, No. 1 (Feb. 1958), pp. 47-64; No. 2 (April 1958), pp. 154-70.
• Gammage, R. G. History of the Chartist Movement. London, 1894.
• Garnett, Richard. The Life of W. J. Fox. London, 1910.
• Gayer, Arthur D., W. W. Rostow, and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, with the assistance of Isaiah Frank. The Growth and Fluctuations of the British Economy 1790-1850. 2 vols. Oxford, 1953.
• Gordon, Scott. “The London Economist and the High Tide of Laissez Faire,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 63, No. 6 (Dec. 1955), pp. 461-88.
• Greville, Charles C. F. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV, and Queen Victoria. Edited by Henry Reeve. 8 vols. London, 1888.
• Gwynn, D. R. Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Liberator. London, 1929.
• Halévy, Elie. The Age of Peel and Cobden. Translated by E. I. Watkin. London, 1947.
• ———. The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism. Translated by Mary Morris. London, 1928.
• Hammond, J. L., and Barbara Hammond. The Age of the Chartists 1832-1854. London, 1930.
• ———. Lord Shaftesbury. 2d ed. London, 1923.
• ———. The Town Labourer, 1760-1832. London, 1917.
• Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates. London, 1835-65.
• Harwood, Philip. Six Lectures on the Corn Law Monopoly and Free Trade. London, 1843.
• Henderson, Gavin B. “The Pacifists of the Fifties,” Journal of Modern History, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Sept. 1937), pp. 314-41.
• Henderson, W. O., and W. H. Chaloner. “Friederich Engels in Manchester,” Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1956-57, Vol. 98. Manchester, 1957.
• Hodder, Edwin. The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. 3 vols. London, 1888.
• Holyoake, H. J. Sixty Years of an Agitator’s Life. London, 1892.
• Hutchins, B. L., and A. Harrison. A History of Factory Legislation. 3d ed. London, 1926.
• Jacob, William. Considerations on the Protection Required by British Agriculture, etc. London, 1814.
• Jeans, Victorine. Factory Act Legislation. London, 1892.
• Kydd, Samuel (“Alfred”). The History of the Factory Movementfrom the Year 1802, to the Enactment of the Ten Hours’ Bill in 1847. 2 vols. London, 1857.
• MacGregor, D. H. Economic Thought and Policy. London, 1949.
• Magnus, Sir Philip. Gladstone—A Biography. London, 1954.
• Martineau, Harriet. The History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace: 1816-46. 2 vols. London, 1849.
• Marx, Karl. Capital. 3 vols. Chicago, 1907-9.
• ———, and Friederich Engels. Correspondence 1846-1895. London, 1934.
• Mayer, Gustav. Friederich Engels. London, 1936.
• Mints, Lloyd W. A History of Banking Theory in Great Britain and the United States. Chicago, 1945.
• Monypenny, W. F., and G. E. Buckle. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli. 6 vols. New York, 1910-20.
• Morley, John. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. New York, 1932.
• Muntz, G. F. Letters upon Corn and Currency, etc. Birmingham, 1841.