Abstract
One of the principal concerns of governments in this age was to increase their own country’s share of the foreign trade that was available. This represented an important part of the general competition for prestige and power which took place among the states of the system. Trade was seen not as a mutually advantageous activity, which could bring benefit to all who engaged in it, but as a form of competition. That competition took place not merely between the individual merchants: it was a contest above all between the states to which they belonged, each seeking to acquire a greater share of the total amount of trade which was to be won.
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Luard, E. (1992). Trade. In: The Balance of Power. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21927-8_8
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