Eloranta / Golson / Hedburg Small and Medium Powers in Global History

Trade, Conflicts and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-72084-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Perspectives in Economic and Social History

This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in world trade, during armed conflicts, and as important agents in the expanding trade and global connections of the last 250 years or so. This volume spans a crucial period in history, from the late 18th century to the world wars and the Cold War of the 20th century, and shows that these states played a much bigger role in world and bilateral trade than has previously been assumed, and that this role was augmented by the emergence of truly global conflicts and total war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eloranta, Jari

Golson, Eric

Hedburg, Peter

Hedberg, Peter

Moreira, Maria Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics)

Part 1: Smaller States, Trade, and Conflicts from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

Introduction: Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedberg, Cristina Moreira, and Silvia Marzagalli.

*The United States and the Mediterranean, 1783-1815: Silvia Marzagalli (Université Nice). *Baltic Relations between Portugal and Russia: Neutrality, trade and finance (1761-1831): Cristina Moreira (Universidade do Minho), Rita Martins de Sousa (University of Lisbon), and Werner Scheltjens (Leipzig University). *Swedish-Finnish Trade before and Napoleon: Jari Eloranta, and Jari Ojala (University of Jyvaskyla).

*British-Norwegian Trade in the 19th and 20th Century: Ragnhild Hutchison (The Norwegian Institute of Local History).

*Trade and Taxation in Brazil before and during the Napoleonic Wars: Rodrigo Dominguez (University of Porto) and Angelo Carrara (Federal University of Juiz de Fora).

Part 2: Smaller States, Neutrality, and Conflicts from the 16th to the 20th Centuries

*American Trade and Neutrality, 1783-1860: Jeremy Land (Georgia State University) and Jari Eloranta.

*Swedish Trade Policy and Conflicts from Napoleon to World War I: Peter Hedberg and Henric Häggqvist (University of Uppsala).

*Ottoman Empire as a Case Study of Neutrality and Trade: Mehmet Bulut (Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul).

*Neutrality and Warfare during the World Wars: Eric Golson (London School of Economics). *No Room for Neutrality: the Uncommitted European Nations and the Economic Cold War in the 1950s: Nikas Jensen-Eriksen (University of Helsinki).

Conclusions and Further Challenges: Toshiaki Tamaki (Kyoto Sangyo University) and Jari Ojala (University of Jyvaskyla).

Über Autor(innen)

Jari Eloranta is Professor of Comparative Economic and Business History, Appalachian State University, USA, and University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Eric Golson is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey, as well as teaching courses at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Richmond: the American University in London, and Coventry University's London MBA Programme.

Peter Hedberg is Associate Professor of Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Cristina Moreira is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Minho, Portugal.