Trading with the enemy : Britain, France, and the 18th-century quest for a peaceful world order / John Shovlin.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]Copyright date: �2021Description: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 374 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0300258836
- 9780300258837
- Great Britain -- Commerce -- France -- History -- 18th century
- France -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France
- France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
- Commerce
- Diplomatic relations
- France
- Great Britain
- 940.253 23
- 382.0941044 23
- HF3508.F8 S56 2021
Subtitle taken from cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competition
Description based on online resource; title from resource web page (De Gruyter, viewed on June 08, 2021)
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 651
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