"The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels examines how international commodity cartels in the 1930s were impacted not only by commercial rivalry, but also by international trade political and diplomatic concerns. This work presents the rise and decline of the European Timber...

Introduction -- Economic history and modern India : redefining the link -- Rural labour and colonialism -- Agricultural labour : lessons from wage data -- Was there an industrial decline in India in the early nineteenth century? -- Labour-intensive industrialization -- Women and...

Introduction -- The Political Economy of Raw Materials in the Global Paper Industry 1861-1960 -- The Esparto Grass Trade -- The Pursuit of Wood Pulp -- Bamboo for Papermaking -- The Paper Trade and the British Empire -- A Retrospective View of the British Paper Industry -- Conclusions.

Introduction -- The Political Economy of Raw Materials in the Global Paper Industry 1861-1960 -- The Esparto Grass Trade -- The Pursuit of Wood Pulp -- Bamboo for Papermaking -- The Paper Trade and the British Empire -- A Retrospective View of the British Paper Industry -- Conclusions.

British-German rivalry in Northern Europe revisited / Patrick Salmon -- Nordic trade cooperation in the 1930s / Sven-Olof Olsson -- why did Norwegian trade policy become more active in the interwar period? / Monica Vµrholm -- Effective protection, prices and GDP growth : tariffs in Finland...