War, wine, and taxes : the political economy of Anglo-French trade, 1689-1900 / John V.C. Nye.

Author/creator Nye, John V. C.
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxvi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
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Subjects
Tariff on wine--Great Britain. --History.
Great Britain--Commercial policy. --History.
Great Britain--Foreign economic relations. --France.
France--Foreign economic relations. --Great Britain.

SeriesThe Princeton economic history of the western world
Princeton economic history of the Western world. ^A682933
Contents 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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-165) and index.
LCCN 2006032179
ISBN9780691129174 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0691129177 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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