Screen LibraryWar, 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...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | [2007] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Princeton economic history of the western world
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| Summary: |
'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. |
| Item Description: | First paperback printing, 2023. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-165) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691242217 0691242216 9780691129174 0691129177 |
| Index Number: | HF1536 |
| CLC: |
F156.155.565-09 F755.619 |
| Call Number: | F755.619/N994 |
| 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? |