Commerce and Coalitions : : How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments / / Ronald Rogowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Rogowski, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE Why Changing Exposure to Trade Should Affect Political Cleavages -- CHAPTER TWO The Revolutionary Expansion of Trade, 1840 to 1914 -- CHAPTER THREE The Interwar Period and the Depression of the 1930s: The Decline and Fall of World Trade -- CHAPTER FOUR Renewed Expansion of Trade, 1948 to the Present -- CHAPTER FIVE Earlier Periods of Changing Trade: Classical Greece, the Declining Roman Empire, and Sixteenth-Century Europe -- CHAPTER six Some Implications for Other Theories and Conjectures in the Social Sciences -- CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index