LEADER 02448nam 22003853a 450 001 9910976771703321 005 20250123130420.0 035 $a(CKB)37386245700041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)461bed07-6851-499c-9f06-80e61071c133 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937386245700041 100 $a20250123i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCommerce, finance and statecraft : $eHistories of England, 1600-1780 /$fBen Dew 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cManchester University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 08$a9781526151605 311 08$a152615160X 330 $aIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history of economic policy. Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and explores the role they played in the period's economic, political and historiographical thought. Through doing so, the book makes a significant intervention in the study of historiography, and provides an original account of early-modern and Enlightenment history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in the Jacobean era, through a series of accounts shaped by the English Civil War and the party-political conflicts that followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular attention is paid to the historiographical context in which historians worked and the various ways they copied, adapted and contested one another's narratives. Such an approach enables the study to demonstrate that historical writing was the site of a wide-ranging, politically charged debate concerning the relationship that existed - and should have existed - between government and commerce at various moments in England's past. 606 $aBusiness & Economics / Economic History$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Europe / Great Britain$2bisacsh 606 $aEconomics 615 7$aBusiness & Economics / Economic History 615 7$aHistory / Europe / Great Britain 615 0$aEconomics. 700 $aDew$b Ben$01383204 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910976771703321 996 $aCommerce, finance and statecraft$94319160 997 $aUNINA