The Currency of Empire : Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America / / Jonathan Barth

• Autore: Barth Jonathan <1984->
• Pubblicazione: Cornell University Press, 2021; Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource)
• Disciplina: 332.4/97309032
• Soggetto topico: Money - Political aspects; Mercantile system; International economic relations; Fiscal policy; Fiscal policy - United States - History - 17th century; Mercantile system - United States - History - 17th century; Money - Political aspects - United States - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States; Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign economic relations United States History 17th century; United States Foreign economic relations Great Britain History 17th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in English America, 1675- -- Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680- -- Revolutions of 1685- -- Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s -- The grand settlement.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Money and fiscal policy precipitated many of the most significant political conflicts between England and the American colonies in the seventeenth century. Competition over silver currency in particular provoked a transatlantic crisis in the 1670s and 1680s, ameliorated only with the onset of a new imperial-colonial bargain in the 1690s"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The Currency of Empire
• ISBN: 1-5017-5579-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524657703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II