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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Problems of perspective : the myth of free trade Britain and fortress France
  • The history of British economic policy
  • The unbearable lightness of drink : assessing the effects of British tariffs on French wine
  • The beginnings : trade and the struggle for European power in the late 1600s
  • Counterfactuals or what if?
  • Wine, beer, and money : the political economy of brewing and eighteenth-century British fiscal policy
  • The political economy of nineteenth-century trade
  • Trade and taxes in retrospect : were British fiscal exceptionalism and economic success linked?