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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 321.03
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Colonies History
• Classificazione: BUS023000HIS010020HIS037000POL010000
• Persona (resp. second.): ReinertS; RøgeP
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The political economy of empire in the early modern world
• ISBN: 1-349-31159-6; 1-137-31555-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790889503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, . 2635-1633