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{{Book Infobox|name = '''''The "Conspiracy" of Free Trade''''' |picture = [[File:Conspiracy_of_Free_Trade.jpg|Author = Marc-William Palenthumbnail|left|publisher = Cambridge University Press250px|publication-date = 2015}}Marc-William Palen's new book ''''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107109124/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107109124&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=OAYPG2MJ64PVWSHK The "Conspiracy" of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896]'' is relevant not only to historians of imperialism, capitalism, and economics, but to the 2016 American presidential primary election. Once again, free trade has become a central campaign issue during a presidential election. While Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have discussed the consequences of free trade, they have provided very little historical context to help voters understand the rationale behind free trade. Palen's book explores a world when American extreme economic nationalism came into conflict with the Britain's advocacy of global free trade. Palen's book focuses on the "upon the ideological debates surrounding free trade and protectionism" within the United States and Great Britain.<ref>https://imperialglobalexeter.com/2016/03/01/theby Marc-conspiracy-of-free-trade/</ref> William Palen]]
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Marc-William Palen's new book ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107109124/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1107109124&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=OAYPG2MJ64PVWSHK The "Conspiracy" of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896]'' is relevant not only to historians of imperialism, capitalism, and economics, but to the 2016 American presidential primary election. Once again, free trade has become a central campaign issue during a presidential election. While Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have discussed the consequences of free trade, they have provided very little historical context to help voters understand the rationales behind free trade and protectionism. Palen's book explores a world when American extreme economic nationalism came into conflict with Britain's advocacy of global free trade. Palen's book focuses "upon the ideological debates surrounding free trade and protectionism" within the United States and Great Britain.<ref>https://imperialglobalexeter.com/2016/03/01/the-conspiracy-of-free-trade/</ref> Palen is currently a lecturer in imperial history at the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on globalization and free trade for the ''New York Times'', the Austrialian''Australian'', the ''The Conversation'', ''Globalist Magazine'', ''History News Network '' and many others. Palen has recently published two outstanding articles ([https://theconversation.com/free-trade-is-once-again-tearing-apart-the-republican-party-57698 Free trade is once again tearing apart the Republican Party] and [https://theconversation.com/trumps-anti-trade-tirades-recall-gops-protectionist-past-54631 Trump’s anti-trade tirades recall GOP’s protectionist past]) explaining how Donald Trump's economic policy echoes policies echo previous GOP policies stances on free trade. He is also the current editor for ''[https://imperialglobalexeter.com/ Imperial & Global Forum]''. You can follow Palen on Twitter at [https://twitter.com/MWPalen @MWPalen].
Here is the interview with Marc-William Palen.
So instead of 1865, I ended up beginning my story in 1846, a pivotal year marked by multiple economic, geopolitical, and imperial events: Britain’s turn to free trade; a temporary US turn to trade liberalization; an upswing in transatlantic antislavery activism; alongside a US war with Mexico and the threat of another war between the United States and the British over the Oregon Territory.
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'''As you were researching this book, what surprised you the most?'''
[[File:William_Lloyd_Garrison_by_Southworth_and_Hawes,_c1850.png|thumbnail|200px|William Lloyd Garrison: advocate for free trade and the abolition of slavery]]
The most surprising discovery was the close relationship between Victorian free trade ideology and transatlantic abolitionism. This led me to answering a question I hadn’t thought to ask: What happened to US abolitionists once American slavery was abolished?
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