The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848
Ireland argued its way into the Union on commercial grounds, and this recovers those arguments.
James Stafford examines Irish political economy between 1750 and 1848, and the debates about trade, empire and Ireland’s place in the European order that shaped the Union of 1800. The material on how the Union was actually argued for, and by whom, is the most interesting part of a well-researched book.
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Tyler Cowen
James Stafford, The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. An excellent and well-researched books, most interesting on the Irish Union of 1800-1801 and how and why so many classical liberals favored it. Consistently instructive on earlier Irish thought on trade as well.
Source · August 2023
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