France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes...

Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated.Originally published in 1987.The...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Triumph of Industrial Capitalism -- 2. Work in the Mines -- 3. The Company Town and the State -- 4. Community in Crisis -- 5. The Long Depression -- 6. The Second Industrial Revolution -- 7. The Politics of Production -- 8. The...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH AND BRITISH ECONOMIC GROWTH SINCE 1851 -- CHAPTER 2. RESOURCES -- CHAPTER 3. CAPITAL -- CHAPTER 4. POPULATION -- CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH -- CHAPTER 6. ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CHAPTER 7....

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Charts -- Chapter I. Introduction -- Part I. The International Accounts -- Chapter II. The commodity balance of trade -- Chapter III. Transportation earnings -- Chapter IV. Tourist expenditures, immigrant remittances, home Government expenditures in...