Between the outbreak of the French Revolution, 1789 and the Treaty of Vienna, 1815, Europe's national economies were afflicted by nearly three decades of intensified mercantilist warfare. The formation of an international network of economic historians would be a heuristic and logistically efficient framework for an exercise in collaborative and comparative economic history designed to expose contrasts in the economic outcomes and prospects for long term development that flowed from this conjuncture for major European economies, their colonies overseas and for the evolution of a global economy as a whole.