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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2007]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource: illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780691190495 |