War and Trade in Northern Seas: Anglo-Scandinavian economic relations in the mid-eighteenth century

by H. S. K. Kent

• ISBN13: 9780521085625
• ISBN10: 0521085624
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Uninterrupted economic relations between England and Scandinavia were of vital importance to the maintenance and extension of the British Empire in the eighteenth century. Scandinavia supplied Britain with the timber to build her ships, with iron for ship-fittings, armaments and industry, and with smuggled tea at low prices to keep her people content. Scandinavia also furnished merchant fleets as neutral carriers for British goods during the Seven Years War, thus fundamentally assisting Britain's war effort. In addition she represented a small but lucrative market for Britain who was herself the largest single market for Sweden and Norway, and for the tea obtained from China by the Scandinavian East India Companies. In this study, Dr Kent examines the organization and extent of the legitimate and the smuggling trades, the effect of war and neutrality upon them, and the legal and diplomatic considerations which influenced economic enterprise and policies.

Table of Contents

Mercantilist Policies and Anglo-Scandinavian Trade

The Organization of Trade

The Timber-Trade

The Iron-Trade

Miscellaneous Imports from Scandinavia

The Export Trade

Tea-Smuggling and the Balance of Trade

The First Armed Neutrality: Anglo-Scandinavian Disputes over Neutral Rights

Trade and Diplomacy

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