Even though i don't study history I watch every single one of your videos. They`re always so easy to watch and fascinating :) Greetings from northern Germany
What you in America call corn is mostly called maize in the rest of the world. Corn is a general term for grain of all kinds. Which is why we generally refer to wheat, rye, maize, oat, etc. in order to be more precise and the word grain has tended to replace the term corn. But the most common and important grain in England was of course wheat as the basis of our daily bread, hence the political significance.
To put it in starker terms. Industrialization was growing rapidly and the capitalist class needed cheap food to feed the growing working class. To them expensive food meant manufacturing couldn't grow in the long term. Remember these people thought 30 to 50 years in the future.
Corn was imported from the continent, the worry was that indigenous agriculture would not be able to make up the shortfall in the event of the exporter nations becoming belligerents. Happened before!. So less efficient more expensive British corn production was protected. Wouldnt the factory owners want their workers to have spare money to buy their cheap, mass produced crockery, cutlery and clothes?, is there any evidence that they cut wages to leave the workers no better off after the corn laws passed? (Marx, and yourself, predict that they would). It seems odd not to mention classical liberal heroes Cobden and Bright and their mass movement even once. Their anti corn law league bounced Peel into action. Ralph Raico has a different take on this chunk of history, but its always interesting to get the version needed to pass todays exams!.
Australian government has similar tariffs and taxes on electric vehicles being imported into Australia. They know that not repealing these laws will not lead to revolution, so they can delay reform for as long as they like, all the while claiming that this is because of market forces. However, this is a risky game: if petrol and diesel prices suddenly escalate, then there are going to be a lot of political fallout for the government. What Peel did was heroic, and he goes down in history for having done the right thing.
So the word corn was a general term for all grains back in those days. As their is already a specific grain called corn (maize) it is a little confusing yes! And this word isn’t commonly used in the UK anymore in this way either. Apart from to describe the actual grain corn (maize) itself. Brilliant content by the way!
Really informative video, brilliant introduction and overview. I hadn't even known that the Corn Laws were about wheat. I can confirm that just like Americans, modern British people now call the crop that Americans call wheat, "wheat", and likewise, corn, "corn", also known as maize or sweet corn, depending on the cultivar and how it's being used. I have no idea when the usage of the terms changed or why. We have plenty of other words used differently between different forms of English, but these are the same. Ps I love you're trying to appeal to the younger generation with the music etc, not sure whether it works for them, but me as a 41 year old becoming interested in the topic, quite funny :-) You could definitely do videos aimed more generally at an adult audience too, your content is of cross-generational interest, not just for bored college students.
It is important to focus on the anti-corn law league in general as it was made up of middle class gentlemen. However, there were to main 'leaguers' named John Bright and Richard Cobden which mainly spread the message of wanting the law repealed, they got so popular that they were elected as members of parliament in 1843 and 1841 and it was them who had the full support of Robert Peel who eventually repealed the law in 1846.
Corn is used as a term for any grains. Corn wasnt really a thing with Britian at this time. Also, a reason for these disparate groups organising together was from the new, lower postal services that could be afforded by the general population.
This series was great for me to understand the politics of the beginning of the Victorian era, I have to understand the era for an art project based on Charles Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll's) literature.
I was hearing your audio .@ 12:30 Am(middle of night)....and not watching the vdeo.... suddenly that laugh came and I was like....'..what's that killing laugh...is anything wrong '...I just scared 😁
In a prologue in Das Kapital, Marx says that England may be the only place on earth were the superation of capitalism may occur through peaceful democratic reform (although he said that capitalists in this scenario -and as a last resort- may feel tempted to try to enforce some new form of slavery upon the worker class) Also his interest in the Corn Laws come mostly from the observation that these debates were basically a dispute between the "landowner class" and the authentic bourgeoisie class (dispute in which the authentic bourgeoisie ended up rising victorious to the detriment of landowners , basically consolidating even more his presentiment that the modern, industrial, bourgeoisie was there to stay - at least until actual communist emancipation-)
Import duty is imposed in order to increase the price of the foreign commodity with respect to the domestic commodity, right? You’ve also mentioned in the video that the land owners wanted to make more profits by increasing the price of their domestic wheat when compared to the foreign wheat, but in that case, the consumer would prefer the cheaper commodity over the expensive domestic commodity, so how are they to make profits?
Are there any books or websites you recommend for studying? AP Euro is my first AP class and the workload and curriculum is by far the hardest of any class I've taken. Your videos help, but the textbook usually goes right over my head. I'm aiming for at least a 4 on the AP exam
Great video however you make the same mistake many new economists do that free trade always results in the best deal for everyone. If you live in Africa and have no developed industries free trade only floods your market with cheap corn, wheat etc and destroys what little developing agricultural industry you have.
To AngelFire, His Video was 'Titled' 'The Corn Laws'. Those Corn Laws were Laws passed in the UK Parliment. Not in France, Austria or Prussia. Royal marriges and aliances with Prussia were not untill Queen Victoria when the Princess Victora (Queen Victoria's first born daughter) married the Emperor Frederick 3rd Emperor of Germany and Prussia. Austria in those days was part of the AustroHungarian Empire (A different Royal Dynasty) and France had declared war (Napoleon France). So at the time of the start of the Corn Laws 1815 , France was involved with very different circumstances. IE Napoleon. The USA Gerorge Washington and Thomas Jefferson were also at war and in an aliance with the French Revolutionaries against King Louis 16th and Maria Antoinette (Both guillotined 1793). Thomas Jefferson was the USA (Washington period ) ambassidor to the French Revolutionaries and later became the USA 3rd President. So, France, Austria and Prussia were not involved in the Corn Laws of 1815 of the Video.
+Tom Richey haha this actually helps me with my LEQ the prompt is "To what extend do you agree that Britain and Russia experienced revolutions in the 19th century?:
If I had a history teacher like Tom, I wouldn't have been an engineer, but a historian...
+Divine Evil Maybe it's a good thing I wasn't your history teacher, then! Pretty sure engineers make a much better living than I do. :D
+Tom Richey yah, but they don't get to talk about the history of taxation on grain imports/exports now do they?
Thank you I’m from Africa and you have explained much for me to sit for my exam
@@tomrichey YOU ARE A GENIUS
Even though i don't study history I watch every single one of your videos. They`re always so easy to watch and fascinating :) Greetings from northern Germany
I’m using this to revise for my A Level tomorrow. Very useful to get this extra information thank you
Thank you! I am currently reading Middlemarch and these lectures have helped me better understand the historical context of the novel.
Perfect timing with where we are in my European history class. Thank you so much!
What you in America call corn is mostly called maize in the rest of the world. Corn is a general term for grain of all kinds. Which is why we generally refer to wheat, rye, maize, oat, etc. in order to be more precise and the word grain has tended to replace the term corn. But the most common and important grain in England was of course wheat as the basis of our daily bread, hence the political significance.
I didn’t know that corn used to be a general term for what is now grains…thanks!
Your like an exact copy of Matt Damon. :D
Tommy Stilles ya he deos
Yeah he does kind of look like Matt Damon...
I thought he was .
I KNEW HE LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE BUT I COULDNT PUT MY FINGER ON IT! ahhh now i cant unsee it 😂
Those corn laws don't seem very aPEELing! (sorry for the CORNy joke)
if you think those puns are shucking terrible, you should ear mine
God bless Tom Ritchey.
Much love from Atlanta Georgia
Great explanation... with heavy metal interludes ! Just perfect
To put it in starker terms. Industrialization was growing rapidly and the capitalist class needed cheap food to feed the growing working class. To them expensive food meant manufacturing couldn't grow in the long term. Remember these people thought 30 to 50 years in the future.
It also open the British Domestic Market to American and German Competition later in the 19th Century
I am an English literature student and these videos are extremely helpful. Thank you!
I'm glad I watched this series on corn laws. Very interesting to see how it was. Thank you
Thanks from the UK! This really helped me with my GCSEs (BTW we do call wheat wheat, and corn corn,
we don't call corn wheat anymore ;)
this guys goated
thank you for the series--from Taiwan!!!
Corn was imported from the continent, the worry was that indigenous agriculture would not be able to make up the shortfall in the event of the exporter nations becoming belligerents. Happened before!. So less efficient more expensive British corn production was protected.
Wouldnt the factory owners want their workers to have spare money to buy their cheap, mass produced crockery, cutlery and clothes?, is there any evidence that they cut wages to leave the workers no better off after the corn laws passed? (Marx, and yourself, predict that they would).
It seems odd not to mention classical liberal heroes Cobden and Bright and their mass movement even once. Their anti corn law league bounced Peel into action.
Ralph Raico has a different take on this chunk of history, but its always interesting to get the version needed to pass todays exams!.
Thanks for the knowledge!
You're welcome!
Australian government has similar tariffs and taxes on electric vehicles being imported into Australia. They know that not repealing these laws will not lead to revolution, so they can delay reform for as long as they like, all the while claiming that this is because of market forces. However, this is a risky game: if petrol and diesel prices suddenly escalate, then there are going to be a lot of political fallout for the government. What Peel did was heroic, and he goes down in history for having done the right thing.
So the word corn was a general term for all grains back in those days. As their is already a specific grain called corn (maize) it is a little confusing yes! And this word isn’t commonly used in the UK anymore in this way either. Apart from to describe the actual grain corn (maize) itself.
Brilliant content by the way!
Thank you from Tunisia this helped a lot.
Your videos are really interesting!! Keep on doing that...Support from italy😉
Great explanation! I am just sitting for an exam, and this was excellent!!! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Argentina! :)
Your voice is so powerful ❤
Just amazing! I really enjoy your videos.
Great lecture series Tom! 👍👍👍
You make this stuff super interesting!
Really informative video, brilliant introduction and overview. I hadn't even known that the Corn Laws were about wheat.
I can confirm that just like Americans, modern British people now call the crop that Americans call wheat, "wheat", and likewise, corn, "corn", also known as maize or sweet corn, depending on the cultivar and how it's being used.
I have no idea when the usage of the terms changed or why.
We have plenty of other words used differently between different forms of English, but these are the same.
Ps I love you're trying to appeal to the younger generation with the music etc, not sure whether it works for them, but me as a 41 year old becoming interested in the topic, quite funny :-)
You could definitely do videos aimed more generally at an adult audience too, your content is of cross-generational interest, not just for bored college students.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND LEARN ALOT THANK YOU
Thank you so much this really helped me with my assignment
It is important to focus on the anti-corn law league in general as it was made up of middle class gentlemen. However, there were to main 'leaguers' named John Bright and Richard Cobden which mainly spread the message of wanting the law repealed, they got so popular that they were elected as members of parliament in 1843 and 1841 and it was them who had the full support of Robert Peel who eventually repealed the law in 1846.
this helped so much for revision for my AS retake history exam
Thanks for the explaination :)
Thank you, Tom or Matt lol, for the informative lecture. Mohammed from Iraq
LOL I get that now and then! Glad to be able to help you learn even in another region of the world.
this was so to the point and perfect! thank you so much!
Corn is used as a term for any grains. Corn wasnt really a thing with Britian at this time.
Also, a reason for these disparate groups organising together was from the new, lower postal services that could be afforded by the general population.
That video is brilliant. Thanks
This series was great for me to understand the politics of the beginning of the Victorian era, I have to understand the era for an art project based on Charles Dodgson's (Lewis Carroll's) literature.
Thank this helped me a lot. :)
Great stuff! Great study prep!
Thanks great clarity and a laugh
+Bev Olson My pleasure!
You're excellent! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. My exam is in two weeks and this videos are really helpful!!
Thanks again =)
Thanks! I now understand how the repeal of the Corn Laws helps the Britain to quit the slave trade and began the new form of exploitation.
'What is the third estate, everything. What it has been until now, nothing. What does it wish to become, something', Poetry! lol.
Cœrn of Kœrn. IE Keorn, of the Kernel. IE Grain. Seed. Therefore inclusivde of seed and cobcorn.
GREAT INFORMATION TEACHER
THANKS!
I was hearing your audio .@ 12:30 Am(middle of night)....and not watching the vdeo.... suddenly that laugh came and I was like....'..what's that killing laugh...is anything wrong '...I just scared 😁
Great video as usual Tom!
thanks for the vids, Tom, from Mansfield, (Nottingham), England.
Oh thank u endlessly u made it seem easy to understand.
You are too good in representative skill.
In a prologue in Das Kapital, Marx says that England may be the only place on earth were the superation of capitalism may occur through peaceful democratic reform (although he said that capitalists in this scenario -and as a last resort- may feel tempted to try to enforce some new form of slavery upon the worker class)
Also his interest in the Corn Laws come mostly from the observation that these debates were basically a dispute between the "landowner class" and the authentic bourgeoisie class (dispute in which the authentic bourgeoisie ended up rising victorious to the detriment of landowners , basically consolidating even more his presentiment that the modern, industrial, bourgeoisie was there to stay - at least until actual communist emancipation-)
Could you talk about Ireland's Fosters Corn Laws?
Import duty is imposed in order to increase the price of the foreign commodity with respect to the domestic commodity, right?
You’ve also mentioned in the video that the land owners wanted to make more profits by increasing the price of their domestic wheat when compared to the foreign wheat, but in that case, the consumer would prefer the cheaper commodity over the expensive domestic commodity, so how are they to make profits?
Are there any books or websites you recommend for studying? AP Euro is my first AP class and the workload and curriculum is by far the hardest of any class I've taken. Your videos help, but the textbook usually goes right over my head. I'm aiming for at least a 4 on the AP exam
+Kikokusomy my teacher made us do learnerator and I've found it quite helpful
+Alex Pigeon Have you taken the test?
***** no, not yet. I'll let you know what I get.
Alex Pigeon No, you don't have to. I was just curious.
What did you make?
Awsome video !
I like your videos
And my videos like you!
Great video however you make the same mistake many new economists do that free trade always results in the best deal for everyone. If you live in Africa and have no developed industries free trade only floods your market with cheap corn, wheat etc and destroys what little developing agricultural industry you have.
So corny! ;0)
Lmao
Juanita Goliszewski ok
a-maize-ing ;3
5:16 LOLOLOL
3:45 Irish Potato Famine & Corn Law
came here to study for my paper on liberal influences. but now i just cant get past how he looks like matt damons long lost brother.
i have a gcse mock that counts toward my grades and have done no revision - pray for me
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@@tomrichey it went ok! ty for the prayers. 🥴💜
I LOVED THE PUN AHAHAHHAHA
omg what bands are your favourite? sounds like you like rock/metal loll
lmaoo that intro gets me every time
Corn laws much like the EU's CAP. Interesting to cover that =].
A1 info man
Sorry Karol
So... you only talked about Britain, what about France, Austria, and Prussia
To AngelFire,
His Video was 'Titled' 'The Corn Laws'. Those Corn Laws were Laws passed in the UK Parliment. Not in France, Austria or Prussia. Royal marriges and aliances with Prussia were not untill Queen Victoria when the Princess Victora (Queen Victoria's first born daughter) married the Emperor Frederick 3rd Emperor of Germany and Prussia. Austria in those days was part of the AustroHungarian Empire (A different Royal Dynasty) and France had declared war (Napoleon France). So at the time of the start of the Corn Laws 1815 , France was involved with very different circumstances. IE Napoleon. The USA Gerorge Washington and Thomas Jefferson were also at war and in an aliance with the French Revolutionaries against King Louis 16th and Maria Antoinette (Both guillotined 1793). Thomas Jefferson was the USA (Washington period ) ambassidor to the French Revolutionaries and later became the USA 3rd President. So, France, Austria and Prussia were not involved in the Corn Laws of 1815 of the Video.
What does HMPH mean on the last slide?
+tom keane Like a sound someone makes with their mouth when they're not pleased
+tom keane Like a sound someone makes when they're not pleased.
Dad joke 😂😂😂❤❤❤ #repeel
is tom a bona fide historian?
#repeel
We are Indian your English british
Corn laws chodo aur Corona laws dekho
This is very basic stuff, isn't it?
Sorry, my friend but we Brits use the term "corn" as a generic for any grain. Your use of the word really refers to maize.
amaizing trivia there
I thought it was funny...
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You should learn how to pronounce bourgeois if you want to be taken seriously.
He doesn't
Get rekt Marx!
God save the Queen!
first
+John Gg You got it!
+Tom Richey haha this actually helps me with my LEQ the prompt is "To what extend do you agree that Britain and Russia experienced revolutions in the 19th century?:
Be sure to look at the last segment of my Revolutions of 1848 video series, as well.
Well I am not fully satisfied