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Money, Power, and Print: nterdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles

Door Charles Ivar McGrath

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#356926-XH36
Titel
Money, Power, and Print: nterdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles
Auteur
McGrath, Charles Ivar
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Newark : University of Delaware Press
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
1611490928
ISBN13
9781611490923
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original green boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This collection gathers together the expertise of scholars in several disciplines in order to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to assess to what extent the political realities of the day were informed by these debates or, alternatively, shaped the rhetoric. The contributors to the volume draw upon an extensive variety of contemporary sources and modern analyses of the formative years of the financial revolution to reexamine many of the existing conventional ideas about the relationship between money, power, and print, and to suggest that the subject is far more complex and interrelated than most studies up to now have indicated. Particular att... (Lees verder)ention is paid to the fact that the financial revolution did not occur in London in isolation from the various regions of the British Isles.
Pagina's
242
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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