The political economy of empire in the early modern world
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The political economy of empire in the early modern world
(Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series / general editor, A.G. Hopkins)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- : pbk
Available at / 11 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword: Of Empire and Political Economy
- Richard Drayton Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire
- Sophus Reinert and Pernille Roge PART I: THEORISING THE EARLY MODERN EMPIRE 1. An Empire of Trade Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland
- Jan Hartman and Arthur Weststeijn 2. A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years War
- Pernille Roge 3. Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires
- Thomas Hopkins 4. Views from the South: Images of Britain and its Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Political Economic Discourse, c. 1740-1810
- Gabriel Paquette 5. The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849
- Sophus Reinert PART II: IMPERIAL EXPERIENCES 6. War, Peace, and the Rise of the London Stock Market
- Giles Parkinson 7. The Impact of Gifts and Trade: Georgia Colonists and Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast
- Claire Levenson 8. Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the Early East India Company State
- James Lees 9. How Feeding Slaves Shaped the French Atlantic: Mercantilism and the Crisis of Food Provisioning in the Franco-Caribbean during the 17th and 18th Centuries
- Bertie Mandelblatt Bibliography Index ?
by "Nielsen BookData"