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The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

Balance of Power, Balance of Trade

Redaktion: Alimento, Antonella; Stapelbroek, Koen

Beschreibung

This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development.

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Autor

Antonella Alimento is an Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Pisa, Italy. Her main research interests are European eighteenth-century political and economic history, with a special focus on France. Koen Stapelbroek is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research focuses on political economic thought in eighteenth-century Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319535746
• Artikelnr.: 53063925

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"The volume at hand should be celebrated for highlighting their importance for early modern history in general and for political economy more specifically. ... this excellent edited volume offers a welcome reminder not only of the high stakes of our current predicaments but also of how long they have been so and why peaceful international order remains so elusive in a world where wealth and power are positional goods." (Sophus A. Reinert, Journal of Modern History, Issue 9, 2019)