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

by Nancy F. Koehn

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801426995
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	09/09/1994
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nancy F. Koehn is James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.