Routledge Revivals: Trade and the Empire (1903): Mr. Chamberlain's Proposals Examined in Four Speeches and a Prefatory Note / Edition 1

by H.H. Asquith

Overview

First published in 1903, this collects together speeches given by H.H. Asquith to refute the charge that those who defended Free Trade at the turn of the century were ignorant or indifferent to actual and potential economic forces, and also clung to obsolete conceptions of the Empire. The author intends to vindicate Britain’s contemporaneous fiscal system, not as academic dogma, but as a concrete and living financial policy. In pursuit of this he undertakes to expose what he argues are the "blunders of fact and logic" of the new protectionist campaign, illustrated with extracts from the speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain — whose advocacy of protectionism provides the focus for the collected speeches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138231351
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2018
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	510
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note; Speeches; I. Cinderford, October 8^th, 1993 II. Newcastle-on-Tyne, October 24^th, 1903 III. Paisley, October 31^st, 1903 IV. Worcester, November 9^th, 1903; Appendix; A. Extracts from Mr. Chamberlain’s Speeches B. The 1872 Comparison