Title Trade and empire in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / by Andrew Hamilton.

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Description	1 online resource (xxv, 168 pages)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index.
Summary	Free trade has become a highly politicized term, but its origins, historical context, and application to policy decisions have been largely overlooked. This book examines the relationship between liberal political economy and the changing conception of empire in the eighteenth century, investigating how the doctrine of laissez-faire economics influenced politicians charged with restructuring the transatlantic relationship between Britain and the newly independent America. As prime minister du ...
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Subject	Free enterprise -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Free enterprise.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Free enterprise -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	United States.
	Great Britain -- Commerce -- United States.
	Commerce.
	United States -- Commerce -- Great Britain.
	Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
	United States -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term	1700 - 1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hamilton, Andrew. Trade and Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2008 9781847188373
ISBN	1443802824 (electronic book)
	9781443802826 (electronic book)
	1847188370 (Cloth)