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  • Small and Medium Powers in Global History

    Trade, Conflicts, and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

    Series series 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 ... Read more

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  • Economic History of Warfare and State Formation

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the ... Read more

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    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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