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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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Hoofdauteur: Barth, Jonathan, 1984- (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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Onderwerpen:
Money > Political aspects
Mercantile system
International economic relations
Fiscal policy
Fiscal policy > United States > History > 17th century.
Mercantile system > United States > History > 17th century.
Money > Political aspects > United States > History > 17th century.
United States
Great Britain
Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > United States > History > 17th century.
United States > Foreign economic relations > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
History
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.

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