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

by Jonathan Barth

PDF, 2021

Publication

Cornell University Press (2021), 396 pages

ISBN

1501755773 / 9781501755774

Notes

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83794
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CONTENTS
Introduction
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
Epilogue - The grand settlement
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