This book tells the story of Free Trade in modern Britain, its contribution to the development of Britain's democratic culture, and its unravelling in the wake of the First World War.

Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. He has publised widely on modern economic history, most recently Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism (2007, with Kevin Grant and Philippa Levine) and Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (2006, with John Brewer).

• Introduction: Free Trade and Political Culture


• Part One: Building a Free Trade Nation


• Prologue


• 1: Free Trade Stories


• 2: Bread and Circuses


• 3: Uneasy Globalizers


• Part Two: Unravelling


• 4: Consumers Divided


• 5: Visible Hands


• 6: Losing Interest


• 7: Final Days


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• Epilogue


• Notes


• Guide to Further Reading


• Index