The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France, 1814-48: Diplomacy, Morality and Economics

by P. Kielstra

Overview

Britain's rarely-examined, nineteenth-century diplomatic efforts for abolition took contemporary pre-eminence over most questions and almost sparked war with France in 1845. Kielstra examines the issue in Anglo-French relations: how conflicting moral, economic, and nationalist pressures and lobby groups affected domestic politics and high diplomacy. To preserve peace and their positions, statesmen had little margin for error as they framed policies which attacked the trade and satisfied mutually incompatible domestic opinions, in a struggle which holds lessons for current efforts to include human rights concerns in foreign policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333730263
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/25/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Michael Kielstra is Director of Studies, 21st Century Trust.

Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes List of Abbreviations Introduction 1814-1815 1815-1818 1818-1822 1822-1827 1827-1833 1833-1840 1840-1848 Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'An impressive piece of traditional scholarship that elucidates many points in Anglo-French salve trade diplomacy. It should please and edify any expert on the questions of nineteenth-century slave trade repression and diplomatic history.' - Lawrence C. Jennings, University of Ottawa, American Historical Review

'This is a profound and subtle book, based on massive research.' - Muriel E. Chamberlain, History

From the Publisher