Commerce, finance and statecraft : histories of England, 1600-1780

Commerce, finance and statecraft histories of England, 1600-1780

Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians ­– among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, P...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Manchester University Press, publisher (publisher)
Otros Autores: Dew, Benjamin, 1978- author (author), Dew, Ben, contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2020
Manchester, UK : 2018.
[2020]
Materias:
Historians > England.
Political science > England > History.
Economics > England > History.
Economic policy > Historiography > Early works to 1800.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's
  • History of the Reign of King Henry VII
  • 2. Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales
  • 3. Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes'
  • Annales
  • 4. The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft
  • 5. Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire
  • 6. Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History
  • 7. Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General History
  • 8. Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History
  • 9. The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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