1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481463703321

Autore

Savonarola Girolamo <1452-1498.>

Titolo

De simplicitate christianae vitae [in italiano] Libro della semplicità della vita cristiana. Tr: Girolamo Benivieni [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence, : Lorenzo de' Morgiani, fl. 1490-1500, 1496

Descrizione fisica

Online resource (v.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524657703321

Autore

Barth Jonathan <1984->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2021

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

9781501755798

150175579X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

332.4/97309032

Soggetti

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

History

United States

Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign economic relations United States History 17th century

United States Foreign economic relations Great Britain History 17th century



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 a new imperial-colonial bargain in the 1690s"--