Bibliograph

Mercantilism reimagined, political economy in early modern Britain and its empire, Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind

Type

Label

Mercantilism reimagined, political economy in early modern Britain and its empire, Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mercantilism reimagined

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

870284480

Responsibility statement

Philip J. Stern and Carl Wennerlind

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

political economy in early modern Britain and its empire

Summary

This volume of collected essays takes a new approach to this problematic subject by rethinking its broad foundations. From a variety of perspectives, its authors situate mercantilism against the backdrop of wider transformations in seventeenth-century Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic, from the scientific revolution to the expansion of empire

Table Of Contents

Population : modes of seventeenth-century demographic thought / Ted McCormick -- Labor : employment, colonial servitude, and slavery in the seventeenth-century Atlantic / Abigail Swingen -- Money : Hartlibian political economy and the new culture of credit / Carl Wennerlind -- Epistemology : expertise and knowledge in the world of commerce / Thomas Leng -- Natural history and improvement : the case of tobacco / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson -- Cameralism : a german alternative to mercantilism / Andre Wakefield -- Corporations : humanism and Elizabethan political economy / Henry S. Turner -- Companies : monopoly, sovereignty, and the British East Indies / Philip J. Stern -- The church : Anglicanism and the nationalization of maritime space / Brent S. Sirota -- Pirates and smugglers : political economy in the red Atlantic / Niklas Frykman -- Polycentric states : the Spanish reigns and the failures of mercantilism / Regina Grafe -- Financial markets : the limits of economic regulation in early modern England / Anne L. Murphy -- Consumption : commercial demand and the hallenges to regulatory power in eighteenth-century Ireland / Martyn J. Powell -- War and peace : trade, international competition, and political economy / John Shovlin -- Neutrality : Atlantic shipping in and after the Anglo-Dutch wars / Victor Enthoven -- Rivalry : greatness in early modern political economy / Sophus A. Reinert -- Afterword : from mercantilism to macroeconomics / Craig Muldrew

Target audience

specialized

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