Trade and War :
The Neutrality of Commerce in the Inter-State System
Edited by Koen Stapelbroek
Published by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies www.helsinki.fi/collegium/e-series
ISSN 1796-2986 ISBN 978-952-10-6807-2
VOLUME 10
Cover image: The Benefit of Neutrality, 1745. Image courtesy of American Antiquarian Society
Trade and War :
The Neutrality of Commerce in the Inter-State System Edited by Koen Stapelbroek
Contents
The Rights of Neutral Trade and its Forgotten History Koen Stapelbroek 3
From Grotius to the Seven Years’ War: Balance of Power and
‘Jealousy of Trade’
Commerce on Trial: Neutral Rights and Private Warfare in
the Seven Years’ War 14
Tara Helfman
Just and Unjust Neutrality: J.H.G. von Justi’s Defence of
Prussian Maritime Neutrality (1740–1763) 42
Ere Nokkala
Competition, true patriotism and colonial interests:
Forbonnais’ vision of neutrality and trade 61
Antonella Alimento
The War of the American Independence &
the ‘League of Armed neutrality’
From ‘hostile infection’ to ‘free ship, free goods’: Changes in
French neutral trade legislation (1689–1778) 95
Eric Schnakenbourg
The Dutch debate on commercial neutrality (1713–1830) Koen Stapelbroek 114
Sweden’s neutral trade under Gustav III: The ideal of commercial
independence under the predicament of political isolation 143 Leos Müller
The progress of humankind in Galiani’s Dei Doveri dei Principi Neutrali:
Natural law, Neapolitan trade and Catherine the Great 161 Koen Stapelbroek
The Napoleonic Era: Neutral Trade and the Inter State Order
“A price would be set not only upon our friendship, but upon our neutrality” : Alexander Hamilton’s political economy and early American state-building 184 Mark Somos
The ‘Ignominious Fall of the European Commonwealth’:
Gentz, Hauterive, and the Debate of 1800 212
Isaac Nakhimovsky
Britain and the Neutrals in the French Revolutionary Wars:
The Debate Over Reprisals and Third Parties 229
Stephen C. Neff
Contributors 251
