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Commerce, finance and statecraft Histories of England, 1600-1780 /

In 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dew, Ben (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [s.l.] : Manchester University Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's
  • History of the Reign of King Henry VII
  • 2. Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales
  • 3. Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes'
  • Annales
  • 4. The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft
  • 5. Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire
  • 6. Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History
  • 7. Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General History
  • 8. Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History
  • 9. The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.