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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Arizona State & George Mason funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Barth, Jonathan, 1984- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021
2021.
Materias:
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
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421988906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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