Autore
Schulte Beerbühl, Margrit

Titolo
Trading with the enemy. Clandestine networks during the napoleonic wars
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 143 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 541 - Pagina finale: 566

In the economic history literature the French and Napoleonic Wars are seenas a turning point in the process of global market integration. Historical studieshave pointed to the disrupting effects of incipient intra- and intercontinental marketintegration. By focussing on the practice of the British licence system and the more orless covert relations between public institutions and private enterprise across nationalborders in circumventing embargos and blockades, this paper pursues two aims: itwill paint a more comprehensive picture of the dimensions of undercover trade, anddelineate some of the strategies which merchants resorted to in order to organisesecret trade, even involving the governments of the two antagonists. It thus reveals theability and flexibility of private entrepreneurs to reconnect and restructure brokentrade links even during the wars.



SICI: 0301-6307(2013)143:2<541:TWTECN>2.0.ZU;2-Z
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