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Offers a new paradigm for thinking about the political economy of the international order in the eighteenth century through the subject of commercial treaties
Utilises commercial treaties to explore how European states with global economic portfolios work as a whole and how statesmen and political writers thought about reforming and stabilising it
Combines divergent historical methodologies with a transnational approach to explain hitherto unaccounted aspects of local, national politics and economic debates
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
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Dipartimento di Civilta' e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Antonella Alimento
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Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, Department of Public Administration, University of Helsinki & Erasmus University Rotterdam, Helsinki, Finland & Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Koen Stapelbroek
About the editors
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.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Balance of Power, Balance of Trade
Editors: Antonella Alimento, Koen Stapelbroek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53574-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53573-9Published: 04 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85187-7Published: 14 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53574-6Published: 15 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 472
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: European History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Economic History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Political History