A Discourse of trade and coyn. [By John Pollexfen.]
Author: John Pollexfen
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Published: 1697
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
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Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-04
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 900444307X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonial Adventures:Commercial Law and Practice in the Making proposes a lung run exploration of the influence of colonisation and overseas trade on commercial law and the adaptation of transplanted law to colonial constraints in a comparative perspective.
Mercantilism
Author: Lars Magnusson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994-07-07
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1134907729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEver since the Physiocrats and Adam Smith, mercantilism or 'the mercantile system' have been described as the opposite of classical political economy. This view is very much brought into question by the current book. It argues that the sharp distinction between mercantilism and 19th century laissez-faire economics has obscured the meaning, content
The Currency of Empire
Author: Jonathan Barth
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1501755781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
Author: J. Heilbron
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780792345893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850. It is shown that the social sciences were a crucial element in the conceptual and epistemic revolution, which parallelled and partly underpinned the political and economic transformations of the modern world. From a consistently comparative perspective, a group of internationally leading scholars takes up fundamental issues such as the role of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution in the shaping of the social sciences, the changing relationships between political theory and moral discourse, the profound transformation of philosophy, and the constitution of political economy and statistics.
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830
Author: John Styles
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Routledge Library Editions: 18th Century Philosophy
Author: Various
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-07-14
Total Pages: 4692
ISBN-13: 0429643349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection reissues 17 titles that provide an excellent overview of 18th century philosophy – as well as the debates that surround the topic. Featuring works on Berkeley, Hume, Kant and Rousseau, among others, the collection examines a host of philosophical arguments by the leading thinkers of the time. It is an essential reference collection.
Routledge Library Editions: Landmarks in the History of Economic Thought
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-14
Total Pages: 4132
ISBN-13: 1315409321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRe-issuing 15 seminal volumes in the history of economics, originally published between 1906 and 1983, but which still have enduring validity, the volumes in this set, by Edwin Cannan, Michal Kalecki, Simon Kuznets, Erik Lindahl, A. C. Pigou, Joan Robinson, Friedrich List, Knut Wicksell, Tibor Scitovsky and Jacob Viner discuss and examine: general problems of economics and in particular the theories of production, value, distribution, employment, interest, money, currency, credit and international trade key principles of economics in historical terms Swedish monetary theory major variables significant for the analysis of economic development business cycles origins of social organizations, the development of Robinson Crusoe economies and the conception of property or rightful ownership.
Money, Obedience, and Affection
Author: Stephen R.L. Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-28
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0429590253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1985, presents a key collection of essays on Berkeley’s moral and political philosophy. They form an introduction to, and analysis of, Berkeley’s immaterialist arguments, part of his consciously adopted strategy to subvert Enlightenment thought, which he saw as a danger to civil society.
John Law
Author: Antoin E. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 019828649X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Law (1671-1729) left a remarkable legacy of economic concepts from a time when economic conceptualization was very much at an embryonic stage. Yet he is best known-and generally dismissed-today as a rake, duellist, and gambler. This intellectual biography offers a new approach to Law, one that shows him to have been a significant economic theorist with a vision that he attempted to implement as policy in early-eighteenth-century Europe. Law's style, marked by a clarity and use of modern terminology, stands out starkly against the turgid prose of many of his contemporaries. His vision of a monetary and financial system was certainly one of a later age, for Law believed in an economy of banknotes and credit where specie had no role to play. Ultimately Law failed as a policy-maker, in part because of the entrenchment of the financiers and their aristocratic backers and in part because of theoretical flaws in his vision. His struggle for power took place against the background of Europe's first major stock boom and collapse. The collapse of the Mississippi System, which he had conceived, and the South Sea Bubble led to a lasting impression of Law as a failure. It is this impression that Antoin Murphy seeks to dispel.
