Cover; The Power of Commerce; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE The Economics of War and the Politics of Peace; TWO The Landscape of Economic Change; THREE Managing the ""Great Machine of Trade; FOUR The Political Configurations of Dominion; FIVE The Ambivalence of Empire; SIX Extending Commerce and Improving Revenue; Afterword; Bibliography; Index
Summary
What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following ..
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index
