 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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End of Corn Laws celebrated.(Features)
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The Corn Laws were imposed on the country in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars to attempt to preserve the high profits landowners and some farmers had enjoyed.
The laws prevented foreign corn being imported until domestic corn had reached a certain price.
The artificially high price of corn led to an increase in the cost of food, particularly bread, the staple diet of the working classes and poor.
Manufacturers were also unhappy about the high...
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End of Corn Laws celebrated.(Features)
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; The Corn Laws were imposed on the country in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars to attempt to preserve the high profits landowners and some farmers had enjoyed. The laws prevented foreign corn being imported until domestic corn had reached a certain price. The artificially high price of corn
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Echoes of splits past. (UK's Conservative Party) (Column)
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A Man to Remember
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; June 4, 2004, was a significant date for all who care for the history and cause of human liberty. It marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of a great champion of freedom, a man who wrought a revolution not only in his own land but worldwide. The man was Richard Cobden. Born in Sussex in modest
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The Corn Laws and English wheat prices, 1815-1846.
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; Introduction The nineteenth century English Corn Laws remain the quintessential example of a trade barrier and of the ability of a powerful interest group to subvert government policy. By increasing the price of a basic food, the laws provoked social and political upheaval and mobilized the
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Chief Executive
; market horizons This year's World Economic Forum at Davos once again provided a very convenient stage for all those who oppose globalization to strut their stuff. And dutifully, the international press dedicated a good part of its reporting to this "new phenomenon" of public outcries over trade.
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Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939. (Reviews of Books).
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; J. R. Wordie, ed. Agriculture and Politics in England, 1815-1939. New York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. vii, 260. $59.95. ISBN 0-312-23435-X. In so much of British political history since the early nineteenth century, agriculture has appeared as Banquo's ghost; a mover of events, but rarely apparent to
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 "New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)")
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Why we should all praise humble spud.
New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
; IT IS the world's fourth-most-important food crop, after maize, wheat and rice. It provides more calories, more quickly, using less land and in a wider range of climates than any other plant. It is the potato. The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato. It hopes that
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Spud we like; The potato.
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; In praise of the humble but world-changing tuber IT IS the world's fourth-most-important food crop, after maize, wheat and rice. It provides more calories, more quickly, using less land and in a wider range of climates than any other plant. It is, of course, the potato. The United Nations has
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Winnipeg Free Press
; The Economist It is the world's fourth-most-important food crop, after maize, wheat and rice. It provides more calories, more quickly, using less land and in a wider range of climates than any other plant. It is, of course, the potato. The United Nations has declared 2008 the International Year of
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