Brougham, Henry.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE COLONIAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN POWERS.

printed by D. Willison, for E. Balfour, Manners & Miller, and Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, and T.N. Longman & O. Rees, London, Edinburgh: 1803. First edition. Brougham's treatise on colonial relations came at a time of transition for the New World, and several sections of this work focus on America and the West Indies. The author's anti-slavery stance is evident in several chapters, where he contends that the slave trade is "not a trade, but a crime." [New Palgrave, 1, 279-280]. His later career as a member of the British Parliament continued to reflect his oppositon to the slave trade. This work, one of his earliest, carefully sets forth the commercial and political relations between colonies and their mother country. His belief that monopoly of trade between the two was not necessarily detrimental to the colonies, ran counter to one of the previous generation's leading economists, Adam Smith. A scholarly work, too long forgotten. KRESS B4634 GOLDSMITH 18665 SABIN 8409 Two volumes. 21cm.; (4), 588; (6), 588pp. Recently rebound in half leather and marbled boards. Gilt stamping and bands on spine. Prev. owner's bookplate on front pastedown of vol. one. A very nice copy.

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