TY - BOOK ID - 16191253 TI - The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century : Balance of Power, Balance of Trade AU - Alimento, Antonella. AU - Stapelbroek, Koen. PY - 2017 SN - 3319535749 3319535730 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Commercial treaties KW - History KW - Trade agreements (Commerce) KW - Competition, International KW - Foreign trade regulation KW - Treaties KW - Reciprocity (Commerce) KW - Europe-History. KW - World history. KW - Economic history. KW - Imperialism. KW - World politics. KW - European History. KW - World History, Global and Transnational History. KW - Economic History. KW - Imperialism and Colonialism. KW - Political History. KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - World history KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - Universal history KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - Economics KW - Europe—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16191253 AB - This book is the first study that analyses bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time. The work focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice. From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development. . ER -