Free trade nation : commerce, consumption, and civil society in modern Britain / Frank Trentmann.

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Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
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245 1 0 |a Free trade nation :  |b commerce, consumption, and civil society in modern Britain /  |c Frank Trentmann. 
260 |a Oxford ;  |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c c2008. 
300 |a xiv, 450 p., [14] p. of plates :  |b ill. (some col.), maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Introduction: Free Trade and Political Culture --  |g Pt. I.  |t Building a Free Trade Nation --  |g 1.  |t Free Trade Stories --  |g 2.  |t Bread and Circuses --  |g 3.  |t Uneasy Globalizers --  |g Pt. II.  |t Unravelling --  |g 4.  |t Consumers Divided --  |g 5.  |t Visible Hands --  |g 6.  |t Losing Interest --  |g 7.  |t Final Days. 
520 1 |a "Free Trade was one of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world. It united civil society and commerce, and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how Free Trade contributed to the growth of democratic culture in Britain - and how it fell apart." "Free Trade Nation follows the creation of this culture in nineteenth-century Britain,and its subsequent unravelling in the First World War and the inter-war years, when many of its former supporters now attacked it for sacrificing international stability and domestic welfare at the temple of cheapness.These attacks brought to an end a seminal chapter in history. The popular culture of Free Trade was never to return." "For anyone interested in the current problem of globalization, this book offers a vivid and thought-provoking perspective on the success and failure of Free Trade. For champions of trade liberalization, it is a reminder that culture, ethics, and popular communication matter just as much as sound economics. Believers in Fair Trade, by contrast, will be surprised to learn that in the past it was Free Trade, not Fair Trade, that stood for democracy, justice, and peace."--BOOK JACKET. 
650 0 |a Free trade  |z Great Britain  |x History  |y 19th century. 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x Commerce  |x History  |y 19th century. 
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