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Small and medium powers in global history : trade, conflicts and neutrality from the 18th to the 20th centuries / edited by Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedburg and Maria Cristina Moreira.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Eloranta, Jari (Editor), Golson, Eric (Editor), Hedburg, Peter (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Series:Perspectives in economic and social history ; 54.
Subjects:
Commerce > History > 18th century.
Commerce > History > 19th century.
Commerce > History > 20th century.
Great powers.
States, Small.
Commerce
Great powers
States, Small
1700-1999
History
Table of Contents:
  • Smaller states, trade, and conflicts from the 18th to the 20th centuries
  • Introduction / Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedberg, Cristina Moreira, and Silvia Marzagalli
  • The United States and the Mediterranean, 1783-1815 / Silvia Marzagalli (Université Nice)
  • Baltic relations between Portugal and Russia : neutrality, trade and finance (1761-1831) / Cristina Moreira (Universidade do Minho), Rita Martins de Sousa (University of Lisbon), and Werner Scheltjens (Leipzig University)
  • British-Norwegian trade in the 19th and 20th century / Ragnhild Hutchison (The Norwegian Institute of Local History)
  • Trade and taxation in Brazil before and during the Napoleonic wars / Rodrigo Dominguez (University of Porto) and Angelo Carrara (Federal University of Juiz de Fora)
  • Smaller states, neutrality, and conflicts from the 16th to the 20th centuries
  • American trade and neutrality, 1783-1860 / Jeremy Land (Georgia State University) and Jari Eloranta
  • Swedish trade policy and conflicts from Napoleon to World War I / Peter Hedberg and Henric Häggqvist (University of Uppsala)
  • Ottoman Empire as a case study of neutrality and trade / Mehmet Bulut (Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul)
  • Neutrality and warfare during the world wars / Eric Golson (London School of Economics). *No Room for Neutrality : the Uncommitted European Nations and the Economic Cold War in the 1950s / Nikas Jensen-Eriksen (University of Helsinki)
  • Conclusions and further challenges / Toshiaki Tamaki (Kyoto Sangyo University) and Jari Ojala (University of Jyvaskyla).

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