Davis L.E., Engerman S.L. Naval Blockades in Peace and War: an economic history since 1750

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 465 p.This book examines a number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, theWar of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of avoidingwar. The impact of newtechnology and organizational changes on the nature of blockades and their effectiveness as military measures are discussed. Legal, economic, and political questions are explored to understand the various constraints on belligerent behavior. The analyses draw on the extensive amount of quantitative material available from military publications.Lance E. Davis is Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Social Science, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology.He is author or editor of many books, including Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (1971, with Douglass North), Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism (1986, with Robert Huttenback; revised and abridged edition, 1988), International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820–1914 (1994, with Robert Cull), and Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1865–1914 (2001, with Robert E. Gallman), all published by Cambridge University Press.Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. Among his co-authored and co-edited volumes are Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974, with Robert W. Fogel), The Cambridge Economic History of the United States (1996, 2000, with Robert E. Gallman), A Historical Guide to World Slavery (1998, with Seymour Drescher), and Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development (Essays in Honor of Lance E. Davis; 2003, with Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff ).