Description
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of lobbying prior to the Civil War. Since the 2008 global economic crisis, historians have embraced the challenge of making visible the invisible hand of the market. This renewed interest in the politics of political economy makes it all the more timely to remind ourselves that debates over free trade and protection were just as controversial in the early United States as they have once again become, and that lobbying, then as now, played an important part in Lincoln's government of the people, by the people, for the people. In Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 18161861, Daniel Peart reveals how active lobbyists were in Washington throughout the antebellum era. He describes how they involved themselves at every stage of the making of tariff policy, from setting the congressional agenda, through the writing of legislation in committee, to the final vote. Considering policymaking as a process, Peart focuses on the importance of rules and timing,
Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. “Men of Talents”: The Tariff of 1816
Chapter Two. “More Than a Mere Manufacturing Question”: The Baldwin Bill of 1820 and the Tariff of 1824
Chapter Three. “An Engine of Party Purposes”: The Woollens Bill of 1827 and the Tariff of 1828
Chapter Four. “Calculate the Value of the Union”: The Tariffs of 1832 and 1833
Chapter Five. “Trembling upon the Verge of Success and Defeat”: The Tariffs of 1842 and 1846
Chapter Six. “The Almighty Dollar”: The Tariffs of 1857 and 1861
Conclusion
Appendix. Key Congressional Roll Calls on Tariff Legislation, 1816–1861
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
