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Article: Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain. Frank Trentmann. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xiv + 450 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-920920-0. As Prof. Trentmann points out, 'free trade' was Britian's nineteenth-century gift to the world, the nearest thing the British have had to a national ideology, if we put aside the post-Reformation devotion to Protestantism. Free Trade went hand in hand with free parliaments and free speech. How did Free Trade become 'uniquely central to democratic culture and national identity' and how was this finally lost in 1931-2 are the questions examined in this ...
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