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Free Trade and Frustration

Anglo-Austrian Negotiations 1860-70

by (author) Karl Helleiner

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1973
Category
General, History & Theory, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487589998
    Publish Date
    Dec 1973
    List Price
    $22.95

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Three treaties were signed between Britain and Austria in the decade of the 1860s, as British businessmen and diplomats tried to spread to gospel of Free Trade amid the protectionist gloom. Britain's patient endeavours to convert other nations to the policy of Free Trade were made in the hopes of advancing economic liberalism and furthering the trend towards free exchanges and international divisions of labour, a development which, it was hoped, would prove conducive to worldwide economic growth and amity among nations. But all of Britain's efforts were met with dogged resistance.

 

This work is a model monograph, derived largely from hitherto untapped primary sources (the Austrian State archives and the Public Record Office in London). In narrating the history of these parleys and negotiations it sheds light on European commercial diplomacy a century ago, when the British system began to be rebuffed by other European nations; it also reveals the personal influences underlying shifts in imperial and imperialist policies.

About the author

Karl F. Helleiner is a professor emeritus of economic history, University of Toronto.

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