Preface; 1. The significance of the Corn Laws in English history; 2. The economics of the corn bounty, 1688–1765; 3. Policy in transition, 1765–1815; 4. Digression upon the corn trade around 1800; 5. 1815 on trial; 6. The league and repeal; 7. The effect of the Corn Laws on the price of corn, 1815–46; 8. Huskisson and imperial statesmanship; 9. The Corn Laws and social thought; Appendix. Two speeches of Robert Peel; Index.