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Titolo |
The political economy of empire in the early modern world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. Reinert, P. Røge |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-349-31159-6 |
1-137-31555-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633 |
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Classificazione |
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BUS023000HIS010020HIS037000POL010000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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