Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory and politics of Free Trade Empire in the eighteenth century; 3. The agrarian critique and the emergence of orthodoxy; 4. The third school: Wakefield and the radical economists; 5. The Wakefield program for middle-class empire; 6. Parliament, political economy, and the Workshop of the World; 7. Cobdenism and the 'dismal science'; 8. Mercantilist revival; 9. Classical political economy, the Empire of Free Trade, and imperialism; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

This book seeks to uncover some of the intellectual origins of the imperialism of the classic period.