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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stern, Philip J.

Wennerlind, Carl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mercantile system--Great Britain.

Mercantile system.

Great Britain--Commercial policy.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-998854-4

0-19-998853-6

OCLC:

861199761