The Currency of Empire : Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America /

"Money and fiscal policy precipitated many of the most significant political conflicts between England and the American colonies in the seventeenth century. Competition over silver currency in particular provoked a transatlantic crisis in the 1670s and 1680s, ameliorated only with the onset of...

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Autor principal: Barth, Jonathan, 1984- (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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Taula de continguts:
  • Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization
  • The first decades of English American settlement, 1607-
  • Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640-
  • Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660-
  • Empire in crisis and flux, 1670-
  • Showdown in English America, 1675-
  • Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680-
  • Revolutions of 1685-
  • Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s
  • The grand settlement.