(005157) Longmate, Norman. The Breadstealers. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 270 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. The fight against the Corn Laws, 1838-1846. The Corn Laws were trade laws designed to protect cereal producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign imports between 1815 and 1846. More simply, to insure that British landowners reaped all financial profits from farming, the corn laws made it too expensive for anyone to import grain from other countries, even when the people of Great Britain and Ireland needed the food (as in times of famine) ISBN: 0851172458 (Great Britain, Corn Laws)
