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War, Wine, and Taxes : The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 /

'War, Wine, and Taxes' debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs - notably on French wine - as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers an...

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Autor principal: Nye, John V. C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:'War, Wine, and Taxes' debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs - notably on French wine - as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others.
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations
ISBN:9780691190495