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Free Trade/Protectionism

In: 110 Years of Taxation from Pitt to Lloyd George

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  • Henry Sless

    (University of Reading)

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In the 1840s the debates over the potential reform of the Corn Laws were often depicted using a ‘sliding scale’ which represented the differing tariffs to be addressed as part of the reduction/elimination of tariffs. The dispute over the American Civil War trade dispute (the Alabama claims) was depicted using opposing icons of the UK (Britannia/John Bull), and the US (Columbia, Uncle Sam, Brother Jonathan). The international consequences of ‘tariff wars’ were depicted using images of death (tombs, skulls)—of images on death duties appearing later. Images of ‘grabbing’ land and trade were used to portray the impact on local workers of foreign protectionist policies. Chamberlain’s Imperial trade policy was innovatively satirised using reinvention of Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter character from Alice in Wonderland. In the US, the Republican’s defence of so-called infant industries gave rise to numerous images of infants and nurses.

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  • Henry Sless, 2023. "Free Trade/Protectionism," Springer Books, in: 110 Years of Taxation from Pitt to Lloyd George, chapter 0, pages 193-236, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-39218-4_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39218-4_8
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