Richard Cobden

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Vol. 1

The Political Writings of Richard Cobden

The Origin of the Burmese War

How Wars are Got Up in India

Simon Morgan

The third volume of Cobden's Letters covers the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the preliminary negotiations over the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1860. It reveals the tension between public and private life experienced by Cobden from 1854 until 1859.

Volume III: 1854-1859

The Letters of Richard Cobden

Financial reform, mr. Cobden's defence of his national budget, letter, by 'One who has whistled at the plough'.

Volume Two of The Letters of Richard Cobden follows the career of the 'Manchester Manufacturer' who had gained celebrity through the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 as he became the dominant Radical leader on the British political scene between 1848 and 1853.

Volume II: 1848-1853

Political Writings: Letter to Henry Ashworth. How wars are got up in India. The origin of the Burmese War. What next - and next? [Russian War] The three panics; an historical episode

Anthony Howe

Cobden on the Land Question: a Plea for Small Holdings

Thomas Perronet Thompson

Extracts from the Works of Col. T. Perronet Thompson, Author of the "Catechism on the Corn Laws"

Corn Laws

term they became a vital tributary of nineteenth-century British and international liberalism." --Book Jacket.

Volume I: 1815-1847

The Sultan Mahmoud, and Mehemet Ali Pasha. By the Author of “England, France, Russia, & Turkey” [i.e. Richard Cobden]

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Russia and the Eastern Question

Julie Salis-Schwabe

Reminiscences of Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden

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