Small and Medium Powers in Global History ― Trade, Conflicts and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in world trade, during armed conflicts, and as important agents in the expanding trade and global connections of the last 250 years or so. This volume spans a crucial period in history, from the late 18^th century to the world wars and the Cold War of the 20th century, and shows that these states played a much bigger role in world and bilateral trade than has previously been assumed, and that this role was augmented by the emergence of truly global conflicts and total war.

Jari Eloranta is Professor of Comparative Economic and Business History, Appalachian State University, USA, and University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Eric Golson is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey, as well as teaching courses at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Richmond: the American University in London, and Coventry University's London MBA Programme.

Peter Hedberg is Associate Professor of Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Cristina Moreira is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Minho, Portugal.