Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World Palen

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780691205137,9780691199320,0691205132,0691199329

Product details:
• ISBN 10: 0691205132
• ISBN 13: 9780691205137
• Author: Palen, Marc-William

Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea, Palen explores how, beginning in the 1840s, left-wing globalists became the leaders of the peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age. By the early twentieth century, an unlikely alliance of liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians envisioned free trade as essential for a prosperous and peaceful world order. Of course, this vision was at odds with the era’s strong predilections for nationalism, protectionism, geopolitical conflict, and colonial expansion. Palen reveals how, for some of its most radical left-wing adherents, free trade represented a hard-nosed critique of imperialism, militarism, and war.

Table contents:

1. The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism: Globalizing the American System of Protectionism

2. The Anti-imperialism of Free Trade: The Liberal Radical Critique of Imperialism and War

3. Marx and Manchester: The Pacifistic Evolution of the Socialist Internationalist Free-Trade Tradition

4. Free-Trade Feminism: The International Feminist Fight for Free Trade, Anti-imperialism, and Peace

5. Free Trade, Fraternity, and Federation: The Economic Cosmopolitanism of Christian Pacifism

6. Pax Economica vs. Pax Americana: The Left-Wing Free-Trade Fight a

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