Lord George Bentinck and the Protectionists
A lost cause
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11005503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angus Macintyre (0000-0003-4740-5710, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Pages | 141-165 |
| Publication date | 1989-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3678982 |
| OpenAlex | W2168877884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
In The processes by which a political cause is defeated, there are significant, sometimes unexpected achievements. This proposition is as true of protectionism before and after the repeal of the corn laws as it is for example of Jacobitism or Gladstonian Home Rule. But while the supporters and fellow-travellers of free trade have had abundant attention, the protectionists have suffered from historical neglect redeemed in recent years only by the distinguished contributions of Robert Stewart and Travis Crosby. A certain absence both of historical sympathy and of interest in the arguments of the enemies of free trade has produced a widely-held view of the protectionists as mere revanchistes and political untouchables, ‘wild men of the right’ who had to be ‘dragged kicking and screaming from their last ditches’ while others made proper preparations for ‘a generation of bourgeois prosperity’. Norman Gash, the doyen of ‘the age of Peel’, while keenly aware of the mixed motives—intellectual, political and economic—which influenced men's conduct in 1845–6 and beyond, writes of the protectionists as ‘the dead weight’ of the conservative party: their cause was too monolithic, too representative of ‘a latent hostility to the other great interests of the country’, to form the basis of a national party; and their leader Lord George Bentinck was principally and destructively inspired by revenge
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Free Trade and Print Culture
Before the Manchester School
Conservative Political Economy and the Problem of Colonial Slavery, 1823–1833
The Galway Packet-Boat Contract and the Politics of Public Expenditure in Mid-Victorian Ireland
Parliamentary Speeches, Political Economy, and the Corn Laws (1839-1846)
The Letters of Queen Victoria
Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England
The Politics of Repeal
The Economic Articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , and Their Authors, 1817‐1853
Scottish Journal Of Political Econmy
Chartism and the Trades, 1848–1850
IV. The Anti-League and the Corn Law Crisis of 1846
Robert Lowery
The Corn Laws and High Farming
The Corn Laws and British Wheat Production, 1829-76
The English Landed Estate in the Nineteenth Century
The Protection of English Cereal Producers
The Nineteenth-Century Corn Law Reconsidered
English Farmers and the Politics of Protection, 1815-52
Free Trade and Protection
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2024 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |