War, Wine, and Taxes : : The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 / / John V. C. Nye.

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• VerfasserIn: Nye, John V. C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 20
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In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye 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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1. Problems of Perspective: The Myth of Free Trade Britain and Fortress France
• CHAPTER 2. The History of British Economic Policy
• CHAPTER 3. The Unbearable Lightness of Drink: Assessing the Effects of British Tariffs on French Wine
• CHAPTER 4. The Beginnings: Trade and the Struggle for European Power in the Late 1600s
• CHAPTER 5. Counterfactuals or What If?
• CHAPTER 6. Wine, Beer, and Money: The Political Economy of Brewing and Eighteenth-Century British Fiscal Policy
• CHAPTER 7. The Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century Trade
• CHAPTER 8. Trade and Taxes in Retrospect: Were British Fiscal Exceptionalism and Economic Success Linked?
• APPENDIX Modeling the Effects of British and French Tariffs on National Income
• Notes
• References
• Index