The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century - 9783319851877

Springer International Publishing AG

The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth CenturyBalance of Power, Balance of Trade\nAuthor(s): Antonella Alimento, Koen Stapelbroek\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783319851877, 978-3319851877\nSynopsis\nThis 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. Comm.