War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by JohnV.C.Nye (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $52.85

  Aims to debunk the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France. This book shows that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the 18th century to a bastion of free trade in the late 19th.