Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Theoretical Background
1. International Trade and Economic Development
2. Austrian Netherlands in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Cautious Recovery
3. International Trade by a Commercially 'Passive' Participant
4. Sources for the History of Eighteenth-Century International Trade
1. Habsburg Customs Statistics: Magnum Opus of the Customs Administration
2. Tariff Books: A Look Behind the Curtain of the Trade Policy
3. Large Legacy of the Bureau de la regie
pt. 2 International Trade in the Austrian Netherlands: An Assessment of Its Value
5. Balance of Trade
1. State of the Art
2. Approach
3. Results
4. What Did It Mean?
5. Pitfalls of the Balance of Trade
6. Revealed Comparative Advantages Through International Trade Contributions
7. Conclusion
pt. 3 International Trade in the Austrian Netherlands, a Study of Five Key Sectors
6. Salt Trade
Flavour of Progress
1. The salt of life
2. Salt Sector in the Austrian Netherlands
3. Salt Flows
4. Contradicting Histories?
5. Conclusion
7. Textile Trade A Tradition in Decay?
1. Eighteenth-Century Textile Sector
2. Economic Weight of the Textile Branches
3. Textile Landscape in Evolution
4. Explaining the Shifts Within the Textile Sector
5. Impact of Trade on Different Stakeholders
6. Conclusion
8. Trade in Colonial Commodities Introducing the Exotic
1. Irresistible Lure of Exotic Produce
2. Incorporating the New
3. Market Capacity or Smart Policy?
4. Conclusion
9. Coal Trade A Motor for Development?
1. The Basis, as Always, was Coal
2. Coal Sector: In Britain's Shadow?
3. International Trade: Source de prosperite or Paralysing Influence?
4. Coal Flows
5. Effects of the Coal Trade on the Habsburg Economy
6. Parallels Between the Salt and the Coal Sector
7. Conclusion
10. To Trade or Not to Trade? The Grain Trade
1. Grains in the Eighteenth-Century Austrian Netherlands
2. Changing Policies: Fickleness or Decisiveness?
3. International Grain Trade: Capricious Flows
4. Conclusion
pt. 4 Development of Transit Trade as the Trade Policy 's Litmus Test
11. Transit Trade.