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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| Langue: | anglais |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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Table des matières:
- 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.