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 … European markets in the decades before World War I. Going back to the seventeenth century and examining the peculiar history of …

-- 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 …