03648nam 2200625 a 450 991078187790332120200520144314.00-674-26831-80-674-06266-310.4159/harvard.9780674062665(CKB)2550000000056563(OCoLC)761326713(CaPaEBR)ebrary10503305(SSID)ssj0000534850(PQKBManifestationID)11344883(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534850(PQKBWorkID)10521792(PQKB)10246102(MiAaPQ)EBC3300984(DE-B1597)178270(OCoLC)979683593(DE-B1597)9780674062665(Au-PeEL)EBL3300984(CaPaEBR)ebr10503305(EXLCZ)99255000000005656320110505d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCasualties of credit[electronic resource] the English financial revolution, 1620-1720 /Carl WennerlindCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20111 online resource (361 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-04738-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The scarcity of money problem and the birth of English political economy -- The alchemical foundations of credit -- The epistemology of credit -- Capital punishment in defense of credit -- Public credit and the public sphere -- The South Sea Company and the restoration of public credit.Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620-1720, laid the foundation for England's political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that instilled fear in its foes and facilitated the first industrial revolution. Yet a number of casualties followed in the wake of this new system of credit. Not only was it precarious and prone to accidents, but it depended on trust, public opinion, and ultimately violence. Carl Wennerlind reconstructs the intellectual context within which the financial revolution was conceived. He traces how the discourse on credit evolved and responded to the Glorious Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, the founding of the Bank of England, the Great Recoinage, armed conflicts with Louis XIV, the Whig-Tory party wars, the formation of the public sphere, and England's expanded role in the slave trade. Debates about credit engaged some of London's most prominent turn-of-the-century intellectuals, including Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift and Christopher Wren. Wennerlind guides us through these conversations, toward an understanding of how contemporaries viewed the precariousness of credit and the role of violence-war, enslavement, and executions-in the safeguarding of trust.CreditEnglandHistory17th centuryFinanceEnglandHistory17th centuryEconomicsEnglandHistory17th centuryEnglandEconomic conditions17th centuryCreditHistoryFinanceHistoryEconomicsHistory332.0942/09032Wennerlind Carl521694MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781877903321Casualties of credit837701UNINA