Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Beyond 1560: The Auld Alliance; Chapter 2 Markets and Merchants; Chapter 3 'The Custom House Officers are So Agog of Seizing': Legislation and Commercial Policy; Chapter 4 'Fire That's Kindled within Doores': the British Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1639–1660; Chapter 5 'In Pursuit of His Majesty's Enemies': Franco-Stuart Conflict, 1627–1667; Chapter 6 'For the Security and Encouragement of the Free Trade of Scotland': The Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1688–1713; Chapter 7 Beyond 1707: Franco-'British' Relations?; Chapter 8 Conclusion: 'The Said Privileges are Still in Vigour';
