Description: Part I: Manchester Manufacturer, 1832-1838 1. Family and Finances 2. Education, Travel, and Authorship 3. The Political Setting 4. Political Beginnings 5. Advances and Setbacks 6. The Incorporation of Manchester Part II: Agitator, 1838-1846 7. Founding the Anti-Corn Law League 8. Building an Agitation 9. The League and Electoral Politics 10. The Crisis of 1842 11. The Long Haul 12. The Key to Victory? 13. Victory Part III: Schoolmaster, 1846-1856 14. Transitions 15. The Manchester School and Post-Repeal Politics 16. The Manchester School and Educational Reform 17. The Pursuit of Peace 18. Protecting the Peace 19. War Part IV: Diplomatist, 1856-1865 20. Postwar Casualties 21. Negotiating a Treaty 22. The Third French Invasion Panic 23. Britain and the American Civil War 24. The Elder Statesman of Radicalism Abbreviations Selected Bibliography Notes Index

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