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    Trade and Treaties: Balancing the Interstate system

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    From the middle of the seventeenth century to the time of the Napoleonic wars bilateral commercial treaties were concluded not only at the end of large-scale wars accompanying peace settlements, but also independently with the aim to prevent or contain war through controlling the balance of trade between states. Commercial treaties were also understood by major political writers across Europe as practical manifestations of the wider intellectual problem of devising a system of interstate trade in which the principles of reciprocity and equality were combined to produce sustainable peaceful economic development. As the first study that analyses these instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time, this book focuses on commercial treaties as an index of the challenges of eighteenth-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practic

    Le rêve de l’uniformité face à l’impôt: le projet du premier cadastre général en France

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    Il progetto del primo catasto generale della Francia ed il contesto politco da cui scaturì, viene studiato in relazione al dibattito sulla miglior forma d'imposta apertosi in Francia dopo la pubblicazione della Théorie de l'impot di Mirabea

    Raynal, Accarias de Sérionne et le Pacte de famille

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    Dans ce chapitre on analyse la stratégie politique élaboré par Choiseul, le ministre prépondérant de Louis XV pour faire face à la prépondérance anglaise en parvenant à créer un espace économique unifié entre la France, l'Espagne et le Royaume de Naples. On démontra que Raynal fut le porte parole de Choiseul car il fit sien le point de vue élaboré par Accarias de Sérionne , qui le premier, se fit l'interprète de la stratégie géopolitique de Choiseul

    Tra “gelosie” personali e “gelosie “ tra gli stati: i progetti del governatore Carlo Ginori e la circolazione della cultura economica e politica a Livorno (1747-1757)

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    La progettualità politica del governatore Carlo Ginori ed i motivi del suo scontro con il ministro lorenese delle finanze Richecourt sono ricostruiti attraverso fonti rinvenute nell'archivio privato Ginori (Firenze). Dalla corripsondenza e dalle carte private emerge il ruolo di ricettore attivo della cultura economica e politica inglese e francese svolto da Carlo Ginori
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