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This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a
new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on
the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states.
Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such
states in world trade, during armed conflicts, and as important
agents in the expanding trade and global connections of the last
250 years. The country studies demonstrate that these states played
a much bigger role in world and bilateral trade than has previously
been assumed, and that this role was augmented by the emergence of
truly global conflicts and total war. In addition to careful
country or comparative studies, this book provides new data on
trade and shipping during wars and examines the impact of this
trade on the individual states' economies. It spans the period from
the late 18th century to the First and Second World Wars and the
Cold War of the 20th century, a crucial period of change in the
concept and practice of neutrality and trade, as well as periods of
transition in the nature and technology of warfare. This book will
be of great interest to scholars of economic history, comparative
history, international relations, and political science.
This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a
new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on
the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states.
Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such
states in world trade, during armed conflicts, and as important
agents in the expanding trade and global connections of the last
250 years. The country studies demonstrate that these states played
a much bigger role in world and bilateral trade than has previously
been assumed, and that this role was augmented by the emergence of
truly global conflicts and total war. In addition to careful
country or comparative studies, this book provides new data on
trade and shipping during wars and examines the impact of this
trade on the individual states' economies. It spans the period from
the late 18th century to the First and Second World Wars and the
Cold War of the 20th century, a crucial period of change in the
concept and practice of neutrality and trade, as well as periods of
transition in the nature and technology of warfare. This book will
be of great interest to scholars of economic history, comparative
history, international relations, and political science.
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections
of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts
have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the
formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.
The contributors come from different fields of social and human
sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this
volume include the formation of European and non-European states in
the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms
of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare
states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the
persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of
government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences,
especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of
the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and
dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and
evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why
did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the
twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book
are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and
both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive
and useful.
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections
of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts
have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the
formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.
The contributors come from different fields of social and human
sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this
volume include the formation of European and non-European states in
the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms
of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare
states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the
persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of
government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences,
especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of
the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and
dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and
evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why
did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the
twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book
are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and
both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive
and useful.
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