War, wine, and taxes : the political economy of Anglo-French trade, 1689 - 1900

Problems of perspective : the myth of free trade Britain and fortress France -- The history of British economic policy -- The unbearable lightness of drink : assessing the effects of British tariffs on French wine -- The beginnings : trade and the struggle for European power in the late 1600s -- Counterfactuals or what if? -- Wine, beer, and money : the political economy of brewing and eighteenth-century British fiscal policy -- The political economy of nineteenth-century trade -- Trade and taxes in retrospect : were British fiscal exceptionalism and economic success linked?