Bills of union : money, empire and ambitions in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic / Aaron Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Aaron, 1984-2023, author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of finance

Palgrave studies in the history of finance, 2662-5164

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monetary policy--America--History--18th century.

Monetary policy.

Banks and banking--Great Britain--Colonies.

Banks and banking.

Colonies.

Economic policy.

History.

Great Britain.

Banks and banking--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Economic policy.

British colonies.

America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 144 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the years before the American Revolution. The eighteenth century saw many financial experiments as Britons and Americans tried to work out how to manage currency and banking in the British Atlantic. Existing studies have looked at the successes and failures of schemes in individual colonies, but some had grander ambitions, such as Benjamin Franklin, and offered proposals for imperial or continental currencies and banks that would knit together the entire empire in North America and the West Indies. This book makes an important contribution to the wider scholarship not just of banking, currency and financial thought but also empire, politics and the American Revolution. It will be of interest to academics working on the history of finance, banking and currency in the British Isles and North America in the eighteenth century, as well as those working on the political economy of the British Empire, such as mercantilism, trade, warfare, and the politics of empire in the decades leading up to the American Revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030676766

3030676765

OCLC:

1242774736