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'War, Wine, and Taxes' debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs - notably on French wine - as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others.Nye, John V. C. is the author of 'War, Wine, & Taxes The Political Economy of Anglo-french Trade 1689-1900', published 2007 under ISBN 9780691129174 and ISBN 0691129177.
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