Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-362) and index.

chapter Introduction / JEAN - PIERRE DORMOIS, JAMES FOREMAN - PECK AND PEDRO LAINS part PART I Assessing the intensity of nineteenth-century protectionism chapter 1 The myth of free-trade Britain and fortress France: Tariffs and trade in the nineteenth century / JOHN VINCENT NYE chapter 2 Free trade and protection in nineteenth-century Britain and France revisited: a comment on Nye DOUGLAS A. IRWIN chapter 3 Protectionism is 'special: Reply to Irwin on free trade / JOHN VINCENT NYE chapter 4 Measuring protection: A cautionary tale / KEVIN H. O ROURKE chapter 5 Measuring protection in the early twentieth century ANTONI ESTEVADEORDAL chapter 6 Assessing the protectionist intensity of tariffs in nineteenth- century European trade policy / ANTONIO TENA JUNGUITO part PART II The impact and implications of tariff barriers chapter 7 Tariffs and growth in the late nineteenth century / KEVIN H. O ROURKE chapter 8 Interpreting the tariff�growth correlation of the late nineteenth century DOUGLAS A. IRWIN chapter 9 The impact of late-nineteenth-century tariffs on the productivity of European industries (1870-1930) / JEAN - PIERRE DORMOIS chapter 10 Protection and Italian economic development: Much ado about nothing / GIOVANNI FEDERICO chapter 11 From virtual free-trade to virtual protectionism: or, did protectionism have any part in Germany's rise to commercial power 1850-1913? / B�ATRICE DEDINGER chapter 12 Protectionism and Portuguese industrialisation / PEDRO LAINS chapter 13 Spanish protectionism during the Restauraci�n, 1875-1930 / ANTONIO TENA JUNGUITO chapter 14 The role of open economy forces in Portugal and the Balkans, 1870-1913 chapter 15 A model of later-nineteenth-century European economic development / JAMES FOREMAN - PECK.