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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790889503321

Titolo

The political economy of empire in the early modern world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. Reinert, P. Røge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-31159-6

1-137-31555-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633

Classificazione

BUS023000HIS010020HIS037000POL010000

Disciplina

321.03

Soggetti

World politics

World history

Economic history

Imperialism

History, Modern

Europe—History—1492-

Political History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Economic History

Imperialism and Colonialism

Modern History

History of Early Modern Europe

Europe Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Of Empire and Political Economy / Richard Drayton -- Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire / Sophus Reinert and Pernille R©ıge -- 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 R©ıge -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.