Introduction -- Trade and protection -- Overseas investment, corporate strategy and European integration -- From 1945 to June 1955 : the Marshall Plan and the European coal and steel community -- The establishment of the Common Market and the free trade area proposals, 1955-58 -- Creating EFTA,...

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers...