The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire

By Nancy F. Koehn

Book Overview

What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following their overwhelming victory in the Seven Years War.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801426995
• ISBN13: 9780801426995
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher