The Three Panics by Richard Cobden - 1884 Cobden Club Edition

by Richard Cobden

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RICHARD COBDEN The Three Panics, 1884, published by Cassell & co ( Cobden Club Edition). This edition also was once the property of The Free Trade Association of New South Wales. 168 pages. soft covers. About the book: The last of the series of pamphlets which emanated from the pen of Mr. Cobden. No exposure of the humiliating and groundless panics by which the peace of two great nations was almost periodically threatened, and a wise and economic system of naval administration rendered impossible, could have been rendered more complete or more irrefragable. Based as many of its facts and figures were upon the full and accurate information to which Mr. Cobden had access during his somewhat protracted residence in France, as the negotiator of the commercial treaty, he occupied ground which was simply unassailable. A French translation was published in Paris under the auspices of his friend M. Chevalier, the eminent political economist, who has done so much to promote a free trade policy in his own country. Mr. Cobden was strongly convinced that if the English and French Governments met each other in the spirit which characterised the negotiations in which he bore so conspicuous a part, a mutually satisfactory arrangement might be entered into for putting an end to that mischievous rivalry of armaments which has been the bane of the two countries. His views were embodied in the Appendix to this Pamphlet;

• Publisher: Cassell & Company
• Year: 1884
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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