The Power of Commerce : Economy and Governance in the First British Empire /

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What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following ...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koehn, Nancy F. (Nancy Fowler), 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Handelspolitiek.
Britse Rijk.
Kolonialhandel
Imperialismus
Merkantilismus
Handelspolitik
Mercantile system.
Commercial policy.
Commerce.
British colonies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
Mercantilisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Mercantile system > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Commerce > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Colonies > Commerce > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Commercial policy > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Power of Commerce; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE The Economics of War and the Politics of Peace; TWO The Landscape of Economic Change; THREE Managing the ""Great Machine of Trade; FOUR The Political Configurations of Dominion; FIVE The Ambivalence of Empire; SIX Extending Commerce and Improving Revenue; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

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