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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(3):541-543; doi:10.1093/es/khn060
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

John V. C. Nye. War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689–1900

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-691-12917-4 (cloth)

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This is not a long book: an introduction and eight chapters amounting to 120 pages with additional appendices. However, it eruditely covers and raises a wide variety of intriguing issues that give it far greater impact than the slim volume might at first suggest.

The book is fundamentally about challenging the assertion that Britain was a free trader in the nineteenth century and was a free trader when compared specifically with France. From the outset, John Nye sets . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Nicholas Alexander

University of Wales, Aberystwyth


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