The Genesis of the Common Market

by W.O. Henderson

Overview

First Published in 1985. When modern sovereign states were first established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they did not immediately assume full control over their national economies. The arrangements inherited from the middle-ages survived for some time so that ports, inland commercial centres, provinces and even private persons retained a wide measure of control over the movement of goods from one place to another. This study looks at the rise and development of the great industries of Western Europe through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Common Market of the twentieth century owed much to the pioneer work of nineteenth-century statesmen who attempted in various ways to liberalize European trade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138975088
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/26/2016
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 The rise of the great industries of western Europe: iron and steel; engineering; coal; textiles; chemicals. Part 2 An 18th century approach - the Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1786. Part 3 A 19th century approach - the low tariff bloc of the 1860s. Part 4 International cooperation in the 19th century: slave trade; opium trade; arms and liquor; fisheries; sugar; agriculture; currencies and gold standard; health; communications; international cartels. Part 5 Customs in the 19th century: national common markets; the German customs union. Part 6 International cooperation after two World Wars: 1919-39; 1945-50. Part 7 The genesis of the common market: the coal and steel industry; the economic community.