The Life of Richard Cobden

A lengthy biography (along with many letters) of the leading advocate for free trade in mid-19th century Britain.
The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwiin, 1903).
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Table of Contents
- FREE TRADE LITERATURE
- TWO VOLUMES OF ESSAYS Large crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. each. (Uniform with “The Heart of the Empire”)
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- the LIFE OF RICHARD COBDEN
- CHAPTER I.: early life.
- CHAPTER II.: commercial and mental progress.
- CHAPTER III.: travels in west and east.
- CHAPTER IV.: the two pamphlets.
- CHAPTER V.: life in manchester, 1837–9.
- CHAPTER VI.: the foundation of the league.
- CHAPTER VII.: the corn laws.
- CHAPTER VIII.: cobden enters parliament—first session.
- CHAPTER IX.: cobden as an agitator.
- CHAPTER X.: the new corn law.
- CHAPTER XI.: sir robert peel’s new policy.
- CHAPTER XII.: renewed activity of the league—cobden and sir robert peel—rural campaign.
- CHAPTER XIII.: the session of 1844—factory legislation—the constituencies.
- CHAPTER XIV.: bastiat—new tactics—activity in parliament—maynooth grant—private affairs.
- CHAPTER XV.: the autumn of 1845.
- CHAPTER XVI.: repeal of the corn laws and fall of the government.
- CHAPTER XVII.: correspondence with sir robert peel—cessation of the work of the league.
- CHAPTER XVIII.: tour over europe.
- CHAPTER XIX.: election for the west riding.—purchase of dunford.—correspondence.
- CHAPTER XX.: miscellaneous correspondence on social and political movements.
- CHAPTER XXI.: the don pacifico debate—the papal aggression—correspondence with mr. bright on reform—kossuth.
- CHAPTER XXII.: the protectionists in office.
- CHAPTER XXIII.: the panic of 1853.
- CHAPTER XXIV.: the crimean war.
- CHAPTER XXV.: death of his son.
- CHAPTER XXVI.: chinese affairs—cobden’s motion—the dissolution.
- CHAPTER XXVII.: the indian mutiny—private affairs—second journey to america.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.: return from america.—the new ministry.
- CHAPTER XXIX.: the french treaty.
- CHAPTER XXX.: holiday and return to paris.
- CHAPTER XXXI.: the tariff—the fortification scheme.
- CHAPTER XXXII.: the policy of the commercial treaty.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.: miscellaneous correspondence, 1859–60—paris—return to england.
- (1.): To Mr. Bright
- (2.): To Mr. Bright
- (3.): To William Hargreaves
- (4.): To W. Hargreaves
- (5.): To W. Hargreaves
- 1861. Æt. 57.(6.): To W. Hargreaves
- (7.): To Mr. Bright
- (8.): To Samuel Lucas
- (9.): To Mr. Bright
- (10.): To William Hargreaves
- (11.): To William Hargreaves
- (12.): To Henry Ashworth
- (13.): To Samuel Lucas1860. Æt. 56.
- (14.): To Samuel Lucas
- (15.): To William Hargreaves
- (16.): To J. Parkes
- CHAPTER XXXIV.: the american war—fortification schemes—international law.
- Maritime Law
- British Policy in China
- On Lord Brougham
- Inconvenience of a sectarian organ
- Tocqueville on the right of Secession
- The Trent Affair
- Maritime Law
- The Commercial Class
- Maritime Law in the House of Commons
- Lord Palmerston
- Commercial Blockades
- The Cotton Famine
- Debate on Turkey
- The Polish Insurrection
- The American war
- Visit to the Fortifications
- Political torpor of the day
- On Privateering
- CHAPTER XXXV.: correspondence with mr. delane.
- To John T. Delane, Esq.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.: the danish war—last speeches in parliament—correspondence.
- 1864. Æt. 60.Character of President Lincoln
- The American War
- Garibaldi’s Visit to London
- Free Trade in France
- Tone of English Politics
- International Law
- The Law of Blockade
- The Danish War
- CHAPTER XXXVII.: speech at rochdale—the land question—correspondence—last days and death.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.: conclusion.
- APPENDIX: Note A. (See p. 115).
- Cobden to W. C. Hunt on the Hours of Labour.
- FULL TEXT OF THE LAST LETTER WRITTEN BY MR COBDEN
- bibliography of richard cobden, based on the british museum catalogue
- APPENDIX.: Biography, Criticism Etc
- INDEX.
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