![]() | War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 Subjects: Great Britain -- Commercial policy -- History; Tariff on wine -- Great Britain -- History; Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- France; France -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain; In War, Wine, and Taxes , John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others. The book reveals that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the eighteenth century to a bastion of free trade in the late nineteenth. John V. C. Nye is Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. From the Fall of 2007, he will be Professor of Economics at George Mason University and will occupy the Frederic Bastiat Chair in Political Economy at the Mercatus Center. |
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