LEADER 03141nam 22005895 450 001 9910483995603321 005 20251116233602.0 010 $a9783030676773 010 $a3030676773 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-67677-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011797550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6516179 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6516179 035 $a(OCoLC)1244623962 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-67677-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011797550 100 $a20210312d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBills of Union $eMoney, Empire and Ambitions in the Mid-Eighteenth Century British Atlantic /$fby Aaron Graham 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Pivot,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (147 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the History of Finance,$x2662-5172 311 08$a9783030676766 311 08$a3030676765 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Land Banks -- 3. Currency Banks -- 4. Conclusion. 330 $aThis book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the years before the American Revolution. The eighteenth century saw many financial experiments as Britons and Americans tried to work out how to manage currency and banking in the British Atlantic. Existing studies have looked at the successes and failures of schemes in individual colonies, but some had grander ambitions, such as Benjamin Franklin, and offered proposals for 'imperial' or 'continental' currencies and banks that would knit together the entire empire in North America and the West Indies. This book makes an important contribution to the wider scholarship not just of banking, currency and financial thought but also empire, politics and the American Revolution. It will be of interest to academics working on the history of finance, banking and currency in the British Isles and North America in the eighteenth century, as well as those working on the political economy of the British Empire, such as mercantilism, trade, warfare, and the politics of empire in the decades leading up to the American Revolution. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the History of Finance,$x2662-5172 606 $aFinance 606 $aHistory 606 $aFinancial services industry 606 $aFinancial History 606 $aFinancial Services 615 0$aFinance. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aFinancial services industry. 615 14$aFinancial History. 615 24$aFinancial Services. 676 $a339.53 676 $a332.49709033 700 $aGraham$b Aaron$f1984-2023,$01878513 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483995603321 996 $aBills of Union$94491253 997 $aUNINA