Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain

by Frank Trentmann

Book Overview

One of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to the growth of a democratic culture in Britain--and how it fell apart.

Far from the cold economic doctrine of today, in an earlier battle over globalization Free Trade was a passionately held ideal, central to public life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567328
• ISBN13: 9780199567324
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"