A Global History of Trade and Conflict since 1500

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Intersection of Trade and Conflict Since 1500....Pages 1-19
Trade and Conflict in the South China Sea: Portugal and China, 1514–23....Pages 20-37
Portuguese Resilience in Global War: Military Motivation and Institutional Adaptation in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Cape Route....Pages 38-61
An Explosion of Violence: How the Haitian Revolution Rearranged the Trade Patterns of the Western Hemisphere....Pages 62-86
Lifting the Continental Blockade: Britain, Portugal and Brazilian Trade in the Global Context of the Napoleonic Wars....Pages 87-104
Retreat from Globalization: Britain and the Renewal of Imperial Trade between the Two World Wars....Pages 105-123
Trade and Conflict in the Rhetoric of Winston Churchill....Pages 124-141
War, Revolution and the Great Depression in the Global Wheat Trade, 1917–39....Pages 142-162
Trading Blocs and Trading Blows: GATT’s Conflictual Path to Trade Liberalization, 1947–67....Pages 163-187
Nixon’s War with the International Economy....Pages 188-210
Conclusion: Dismissing the Kantian View of Trade and Peace....Pages 211-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-252