The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century : Balance of Power, Balance of Trade.

Intro -- The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Trade and Treaties: Balancing the Interstate System -- The History of Commercial Treaties and the Eighteenth Century -- Separating War and Peace -- Agencies and Institutions of Trade -- The Balance of Trade and the Neutrality of Commerce -- The Peace of Utrecht as a Turning Point -- The Treaties of Utrecht and British Hegemony -- The Balance of Power Rejected -- Commercial Treaties Rediscovered -- Commercial Integration and the Republican Navigation Act -- Égalité, réciprocité, souveraineté: The Role of Commercial Treaties in Colbert's Economic Policy -- Introduction -- France at the Beginning of Louis XIV's Reign and the Providential Foundations of Commerce -- The 'Law of Nations', National Treatment and the Principle of Most Favoured Nation (1659-1665) -- The Development of Manufacturing in France and the Problem of Sovereignty (1667-1672) -- Conclusions -- The Anglo-Portuguese Methuen Treaty of 1703: Opportunities and Constraints of Economic Development -- Introduction -- A Contextual Approach to the Historical Meaning of the Methuen Treaty -- British Testimonies about the Treaty -- The Portuguese Position: From Dom Luís da Cunha to the Marquis of Pombal -- Historiographical Theses and Revisions -- New Historiographical Developments -- Concluding Remarks -- Epilogue -- The Anglo-French Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 Revisited: The Politics of Rivalry and Alliance -- Introduction -- The Impeachments in 1715: Charges and Defences -- The Economics of Alliance and Rivalry -- Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Treaty of Utrecht -- The Treaty of Asiento between Spain and Great Britain -- The Asiento Treaty and the War of the Spanish Succession -- The Evolution of the Asiento Until the Treaty of Vienna.

War and the Elimination of the Asiento -- The Proyectistas and the 'Legacy' of Utrecht (1713-1750) -- Conclusion: Beyond the Legacy of Utrecht and the Cadiz System -- Negotiating the Balance of Power: Russian-Spanish Commercial Relations in the Early Eighteenth Century -- Anglo-Russian Relations: The War of the Spanish Succession -- The Turn to Spain: Russia in the Balance of Power (1714-1719) -- The Transformation of Trade Relations in Russian-Spanish Diplomacy -- Ivan Shcherbatov and the Domestic Development of Russian Commerce -- Francisco Perats' Draft Commercial Treaty -- Russian-Spanish Commercial Relations after Peter the Great -- Reinventing the Dutch Republic: Franco-Dutch Commercial Treaties from Ryswick to Vienna -- Introduction: Dutch Independence and the Neutrality of Trade -- Ryswick, the 1699 Tariff and Utrecht: Defeating France? -- Ryswick and Utrecht as the End of 'True Liberty' -- Franco-Dutch Trade Relations from 1713 -- Profit not the Mother of Alliance: Neutrality and the 'Stationary Trading State' -- The Balance of Power and the End of the Dutch Republic -- The Conditions of Trade in Wartime: Treaties of Commerce and Maritime Law in the Eighteenth Century -- Treaties and the Natural Right to Trade -- Treaties of Commerce and Maritime Law in Wartime -- Treaties and the Jurisprudence of International Commerce -- Treaties of Commerce, an Imperfect Source of Law -- Conclusion -- From Privilege to Equality: Commercial Treaties and the French Solutions to International Competition (1736-1770) -- Introduction -- From Privilege to Reciprocal Advantage: The Rejection of the Franco-Dutch Treaty of Commerce -- From the Navigation Act to the Rejection of the Commercial Treaty -- The 'No Territory Policy' of Choiseul, the Family Compact and the Neutralization of Spanish Colonial Trade.

Securing Asian Trade: Treaty Negotiations between the French and English East India Companies, 1753-1755 -- Indian Geopolitics and Restive Shareholders -- Commerce not Conquest: The Geopolitics of the Compagnie des Indes -- Containing France by the Arts of Peace -- Territorial Parity and Commercial Competition -- Coda: Trade and Geopolitics after the Seven Years War -- The Rise of a Trading Nation: Prussia and the Convention préliminaire de commerce with France (1753) -- The Theoretical Foundations of Frederick's Policy -- The French-Prussian Treaty and other Options at Stake -- The Prussian Trading Nation -- War, Neutrality and Commercial Treaties: The Savoyard State 1660-1789 -- Introduction -- An Abortive Trade Treaty -- Political and Economic Tensions, 1713-1748 -- Savoyard Policy in the Wake of the 'Diplomatic Revolution', 1748-1789 -- The Abortive Russian Trade Treaty -- Alternatives to Treaties -- Conclusion -- Negotiating a Trade Treaty in the Imperial Context: The Habsburg Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century -- The Commercial Treaty: A Product of 'Jealousy of Trade' -- From Public Text to Private Negotiation -- Inventing the Empire: The Plan for a Universal-Kommerz -- French Representations of the 1786 Franco-British Commercial Treaty -- The First Wave of Pamphlets: A Shared Treaty -- References to Britain in the Legislative Debates -- From the Glory of Commerce to Military Rivalry -- Conclusion -- Haiti's Commercial Treaties: Between Abolition and the Persistence of the Old Regime -- Rents, Production, and Nation -- Particular Laws -- Toward a Slave Society without Slaves? -- Conclusion: Failure and Retrenchment -- What Trade for a Republican People? French Revolutionary Debates about Commercial Treaties (1792-1799) -- G. J. A. Ducher and Commercial Diplomacy (1792-1794) -- Commercial Treaties and National Power (1795-1799) -- Conclusion.

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