A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500 [electronic resource] /
Coppolaro, L.editor.
McKenzie, F.editor.
This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict - since 1500. The nine historical case studies - interspersed over 500 years and spanning the globe - make a major historical contribution to the enduring debate about whether trade makes peace more likely.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction: The Intersection of Trade and Conflict Since 1500; A short account of the long history of trade and conflict; Chapter summaries; Conclusions; Notes; 1 Trade and Conflict in the South China Sea: Portugal and China, 1514-23; Trade and tribute; The contradiction between trade and diplomacy; Debates over trade policy; Conflict; Consequences for trade with China; Notes
2 Portuguese Resilience in Global War: Military Motivation and Institutional Adaptation in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Cape RouteA world of contracts; Endogenous challenges; Distribution of spoils; Conclusions; Notes; 3 An Explosion of Violence: How the Haitian Revolution Rearranged the Trade Patterns of the Western Hemisphere; The historiography of the Haitian Revolution; Trade and conflict; The new modern world of the late eighteenth century or: sweet industry; Saint Domingue; The United States and Haiti; Cuban coffee; Cuban sugar; The USA starts producing sugar in Louisiana
Brazil changes the world coffee economyConclusions; Notes; 4 Lifting the Continental Blockade: Britain, Portugal and Brazilian Trade in the Global Context of the Napoleonic Wars; The Continental Blockade and Napoleon's imperial project; The economic scope and limits of the Continental Blockade; The opening of Brazilian ports and British trade interests; Receptivity to the British and their welcome in Brazil; Conclusions; Notes; 5 Retreat from Globalization: Britain and the Renewal of Imperial Trade between the Two World Wars; The British case; Treaty- making and imperial preferences
International repercussionsA paradox of economic performance and postwar policy; Conclusions: patterns of integration and disintegration; Notes; 6 Trade and Conflict in the Rhetoric of Winston Churchill; Churchill's involvement in the politics of trade; Churchill's defence of free trade and empire; Pragmatism and politics: Churchill's defence of protection and imperial trade; Conclusions; Notes; 7 War, Revolution and the Great Depression in the Global Wheat Trade, 1917-39; The impact of the First World War and the Russian Revolution on the wheat trade
Wheat and war: exploring the causes of the Great DepressionHome market protectionism and the Smoot- Hawley Tariff; The British Empire, the Ottawa Conference and trade diversion; The International Wheat Conference of 1933; Conclusions; Notes; 8 Trading Blocs and Trading Blows: GATT's Conflictual Path to Trade Liberalization, 1947-67; War, conflict and the establishment of GATT; Liberalization and development: stalled agendas; The Kennedy Round: liberalization revitalized but some left behind; Conclusions; Notes; 9 Nixon's War with the International Economy; Money- driven trade policy
Global competition
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explains the causes and consequences of the intersection of two transformative global forces - trade and conflict - since 1500. The nine historical case studies - interspersed over 500 years and spanning the globe - make a major historical contribution to the enduring debate about whether trade makes peace more likely.
World history.
Economic history.
Asia-History.
America-History.
History, Modern.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Economic History.
Asian History.
History of the Americas.
Modern History.