Trade and power : historical analysis of trade policy /

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Author / Creator:Krpec, Oldřich, 1978-
Imprint:Brno : Masarykova Univerzita, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11409089
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Other authors / contributors:Hodulák, Vladan, 1981-
ISBN:8021087080
9788021087088
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Other form:80-210-7670-4
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • CONTENT
  • Introduction
  • 1. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND POWER -GOALS AND MEANS OF TRADE POLICYIN HIS TORICAL PERSPECTIVE
  • 1.1. Goals and Means of Trade Policy during Antiquity, in Medieval Europe, and in Asia before European Expansion
  • 1.2. European Trade: Italian Intermediation, Dutch Efficiency, Clash between England and the Hanseatic League over the Baltic, and the Expulsion of Italian States from the Mediterranean
  • 1.3. Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and British Intermediationof Asian Goods, and Trade Policies in Asia in the Wake of European Expansion
  • 1.4. Transatlantic Trade: Territorial Empires in the New Worldand the Clash over Re-Exports
  • 1.5. Mercantilist Wars: Confrontation over Trade in the Mediterranean and England's Wars against Holland and France
  • 1.6. British Hegemony in the Nineteenth Century: Changes in Trade Patterns and Imperialism
  • 1.7. The Inter-war Period: Discontinuity of the System?
  • 1.8. US Hegemony and the Creation of a Free Trade Zone as Consequences of Historical Development
  • 2. NATIONAL STATE EVOLUTION ANDINTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY
  • 2.1. Resources Needed to Ensure the State's Survival and Connections to International Trade
  • 2.2. Conflict Dynamics in International Relations and the Predominant Forms of Military Organization
  • 2.3. Goals and Means of Trade Policy and their Role in the Evolution of Modern States
  • 2.4. Types of Trade Policy and their Connection to Tilly's Thesis about the Evolution of the State: Types of State and Organization of Military Power
  • 3. DISRUPTION OF TRADE FLOWS DUE TO MILITARY CONFLICTS IN MODERN TIMES: A SIGNIFICANT CAUSE FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWER
  • 3.1. Changes Resulting from the Interruption of Trade and the Potential Impact on the Distribution of Power
  • 3.2. The French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Anglo-American War of 1812
  • 3.3. The First World War
  • 3.4. The Second World War
  • 3.5. Integration of Non-European Economies into the Current Trade System
  • 4. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEMS AND THEIR CONNECTION TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE
  • 4.1. The Road to the Creation of an InternationalMonetary System
  • 4.2. Theoretical Possibilities for the Creation of anInternational Monetary System
  • 4.3. International Money: Some Notes on the TechnicalAspects Connected with its Workings
  • 4.4. The International Monetary System: The Institution andhow it Works
  • Conclusion
  • Literature
  • About Authors
  • Summary
  • Index