Cobden: Liberty and Peace
This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund conference on “Liberty and Peace in the Life and Works of Richard Cobden.”
Liberty and Peace in the Life and Works of Richard Cobden
Guide to the Readings
Editions used:
- Richard Cobden, The Political Writings of Richard Cobden, with a Preface by Lord Welby, Introductions by Sir Louis Mallet, C.B., and William Cullen Bryant, Notes by F.W. Chesson and a Bibliography, 2 vols. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903).
- Richard Cobden, Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P., ed. by John Bright and J.E. Thorold Rogers with a Preface and Appreciation by J.E. Thorold Rogers and an Appreciation by Goldwin Smith (London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1908). 2 volumes in 1.
- John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwiin, 1903).
See also:
- Collections: War and Peace
- Collections: The Manchester School
- Richard Cobden
Session I: Free Trade
Bright, John and Thorold Rogers, James E. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, (London: Macmillan, 1903)
- Free Trade. V. London, September 28, 1843, pp. 33-40
- Free Trade. X. London, May 8, 1844, pp. 89-96
- Free Trade. XIX. London, December 17, 1845, pp. 173-180
Session II: Limited Government
Bright, John and Thorold Rogers, James E. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, (London: Macmillan, 1903)
- Finance. II. Manchester, January 10, 1849, pp. 242-251
- Parliamentary Reform. V. Rochdale, August 18, 1859, pp. 578-588
- Education. III. Manchester, December 1, 1851, pp. 604-610
Morley, John The life of Richard Cobden, (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1906)
- Cobden to W. C. Hunt On the Hours of Labour pp. 951-955
Session III: Peace and War
Bright, John and Thorold Rogers, James E. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, (London: Macmillan, 1903)
- Finance. IV. International Reduction of Armaments. House of Commons, June 17, 1851, pp. 263-269
- Peace. I. Wrexham, November 14, 1850, pp. 509-519
- Peace. II. Manchester, January 27, 1853, pp. 520-530
Cobden Richard, Political Writings, (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1903)
- Russia. Chapter IV: Protection of Commerce, pp. 217-259
Session IV: Cobden’s View of The U.S. and The Civil War
Cobden Richard, “America” in Political Writings
Hobson, J A Richard Cobden: The International Man, (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1919) “The Civil War and The Sumner Letters” (Extracts) - not available online
Session V: Critical Views
Archibald Alison, Essays: Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, (Edinburgh: Blackwoods, 1850) pp. 362-388 and 618-660 - not available online
Friedrich List “Introduction” to The National System of Political Economy in Margaret E Hirst The life of Friedrich List (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1909) pp. 286-318 - not available online
Session VI: Contemporary and Subsequent Views of Cobden
Sir Louis Mallet “The Political Opinions of Richard Cobden” (1867) in Political Writings
- Introduction to the Second Edition By Sir Louis Mallet, C.B. The Political Opinions of Richard Cobden, pp. xxix-xliii
M Paul Leroy-Beaulieu “Richard Cobden: His Work and the Outcome of His Ideas” in Richard Cobden and the Jubilee of Free Trade, (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1896) pp. 77-126 - not available online
Reading Lists
- Addison and Smith: Freedom and Responsibility
- American Liberty in Political Documents before 1787
- An Introduction to the Major Writings of Ludwig von Mises
- Banned Books
- British and French Sources of American Constitutionalism
- Burlamaqui, Bayle: Freedom Tolerance, Natural Law
- Cato’s Letters: Liberty and Responsibility
- Cobden: Liberty and Peace
- Constant’s Principles of Politics
- Emerson on Anti-slavery
- Eric Mack, An Introduction to the Political Thought of John Locke
- Gibbon and the Rise of Christianity and Islam
- Homer’s Iliad: Liberty and Responsibility
- Hume, Smith, and Ferguson: Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption
- Hume: History of England
- James Tyrrell on Authority and Liberty
- Jefferson-Hamilton Debate
- John Milton: Liberty in his Prose and Poetry
- Major Political Thinkers: Plato to Mill
- Mandeville: Vice, Virtue and Liberty
- Mill-Macaulay Debate on Government
- Old Testament and English Political Thought
- Political Sermons of the Founding Era
- Readings from the OLL Reader
- Rousseau and Hume: Contrasting Views of Liberty
- Shakespeare and Marlowe: Liberty in Four Plays
- Shakespeare: Liberty and Responsibility
- Socialist Tracts
- Sophocles and Aeschylus: Blood Justice and the Founding of Legal Order
- Tacitus: Liberty and Tyranny in the Annals
- The Ruling Class and the State: An Anthology
- Thomas Paine and American Liberty
- Thucydides: War, Empire, and Liberty