Enterprising empires : Russia and Britain in eighteenth-century Eurasia / Matthew P. Romaniello.

Author: Romaniello, Matthew P. author.

ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Descriptionxv, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction -- Opening opportunities -- Managing mercantilism -- Asian aspirations -- Navigating neutrality -- Continental challenges -- Afterword.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-281) and index.

Note:Matthew P. Romaniello charts how commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled in a critical era of empire. He reveals how geopolitical developments affected trade more than commercial regulations, while also challenging depictions of this period as a straightforward era of Russian economic decline.

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