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Summary:

A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition

Table of Contents:

• 1 TRADE TALKS Peace, Protection, and the Rise of Free Trade
• 2 A SYSTEM OF COLLECTIVE RESTRAINT Spanish America, Freedom of Trade, and the Problem of the South Sea Company
• 3 TO KEEP THE EUROPEAN PEACE John Law's Financial Revolution and Its Legacy
• 4 AN ELUSIVE BALANCE The Long Peace and the Problem of Uneven Development
• 5 MADE IN AMERICA Free Trade and the Crisis of Empire
• 6 SECURITY CARTEL The Franco-British Pursuit of a Permanent Peace in India

Author/Creator:

Shovlin, John , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Trading with the enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-century quest for a peaceful world order [by Shovlin, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Trading with the Enemy [by Shovlin, J.] (New Haven : Yale University Press,c2021 — ISBN 9780300253566)

Subjects:

Great Britain — Foreign relations — France

France — Foreign relations — Great Britain

Great Britain — Commerce — France

France — Commerce — Great Britain

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from resource web page (De Gruyter, viewed on June 08, 2021)

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DA480 .S56 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780300258837 (electronic bk.)
0300258836 (electronic bk.)
9780300253566 [Invalid]
0300253567 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1255232464

Other Control Numbers:

2940123 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp17100506