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The politics of commercial treaties in the eighteenth century : balance of power, balance of trade /
This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Trade and Treaties: Balancing the Interstate System; The History of Commercial Treaties and the Eighteenth Century; Separating War and Peace; Agencies and Institutions of Trade; The Balance of Trade and the Neutrality of Commerce; The Peace of Utrecht as a Turning Point; The Treaties of Utrecht and British Hegemony; The Balance of Power Rejected; Commercial Treaties Rediscovered; Commercial Integration and the Republican Navigation Act
- Égalité, réciprocité, souveraineté: The Role of Commercial Treaties in Colbert's Economic PolicyIntroduction; France at the Beginning of Louis XIV's Reign and the Providential Foundations of Commerce; The 'Law of Nations', National Treatment and the Principle of Most Favoured Nation (1659-1665); The Development of Manufacturing in France and the Problem of Sovereignty (1667-1672); Conclusions; The Anglo-Portuguese Methuen Treaty of 1703: Opportunities and Constraints of Economic Development; Introduction; A Contextual Approach to the Historical Meaning of the Methuen Treaty
- British Testimonies about the TreatyThe Portuguese Position: From Dom Luís da Cunha to the Marquis of Pombal; Historiographical Theses and Revisions; New Historiographical Developments; Concluding Remarks; Epilogue; The Anglo-French Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 Revisited: The Politics of Rivalry and Alliance; Introduction; The Impeachments in 1715: Charges and Defences; The Economics of Alliance and Rivalry; Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Treaty of Utrecht; The Treaty of Asiento between Spain and Great Britain; The Asiento Treaty and the War of the Spanish Succession
- The Evolution of the Asiento Until the Treaty of ViennaWar and the Elimination of the Asiento; The Proyectistas and the 'Legacy' of Utrecht (1713-1750); Conclusion: Beyond the Legacy of Utrecht and the Cadiz System; Negotiating the Balance of Power: Russian-Spanish Commercial Relations in the Early Eighteenth Century; Anglo-Russian Relations: The War of the Spanish Succession; The Turn to Spain: Russia in the Balance of Power (1714-1719); The Transformation of Trade Relations in Russian-Spanish Diplomacy; Ivan Shcherbatov and the Domestic Development of Russian Commerce
- Francisco Perats' Draft Commercial TreatyRussian-Spanish Commercial Relations after Peter the Great; Reinventing the Dutch Republic: Franco-Dutch Commercial Treaties from Ryswick to Vienna; Introduction: Dutch Independence and the Neutrality of Trade; Ryswick, the 1699 Tariff and Utrecht: Defeating France?; Ryswick and Utrecht as the End of 'True Liberty'; Franco-Dutch Trade Relations from 1713; Profit not the Mother of Alliance: Neutrality and the 'Stationary Trading State'; The Balance of Power and the End of the Dutch Republic