Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. CHAPTER 1. Problems of Perspective: The Myth of Free Trade Britain and Fortress France 1
6. CHAPTER 2. The History of British Economic Policy 20
7. CHAPTER 3. The Unbearable Lightness of Drink: Assessing the Effects of British Tariffs on French Wine 32
8. CHAPTER 4. The Beginnings: Trade and the Struggle for European Power in the Late 1600s 44
9. CHAPTER 5. Counterfactuals or What If? 60
10. CHAPTER 6. Wine, Beer, and Money: The Political Economy of Brewing and Eighteenth-Century British Fiscal Policy 68
11. CHAPTER 7. The Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century Trade 89
12. CHAPTER 8. Trade and Taxes in Retrospect: Were British Fiscal Exceptionalism and Economic Success Linked? 110
13. APPENDIX Modeling the Effects of British and French Tariffs on National Income 121
14. Notes 145
15. References 159
16. Index 167