The War Between Britain and France

Before the modern era, shock waves from an army burning crops or destroying infrastructure didn't have the same opportunity to spread. Today in our hyper-connected global market, a bad wheat harvest in one region can have an impact on food prices everywhere on Earth. A disruption in cash crop production in the West Indies could have grave economic consequences for tens of thousands of people in France. By the Napoleonic period, economies were becoming more complex than they ever had been before.