The currency of empire : money and power in seventeenth-century English America /

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"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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barth, Jonathan, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2021?]
Subjects:
1600-1699
Money > Political aspects > United States > History > 17th century.
Mercantile system > United States > History > 17th century.
Fiscal policy > United States > History > 17th century.
Mercantilisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Politique fiscale > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siècle.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
Fiscal policy
International economic relations
Mercantile system
Money > Political aspects
United States > Foreign economic relations > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > Foreign economic relations > United States > History > 17th century.
Great Britain
United States
coin in colonial America, political history of colonial America, mercantilism in Colonial America.
History
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501755798
150175579X
9781501755781
1501755781

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