The Power of Commerce : : Economy and Governance in the First British Empire / / Nancy F. Koehn.

What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following their overwhelming victory in the Seven Years War.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t ONE. The Economics of War and the Politics of Peace --   |t TWO. The Landscape of Economic Change --   |t THREE. Managing the "Great Machine of Trade" --   |t FOUR. The Political Configurations of Dominion --   |t FIVE. The Ambivalence of Empire --   |t SIX. Extending Commerce and Improving Revenue --   |t Afterword --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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