Political Economy And Imperial Governance In Eighteenth Century Britain

Author : Heather Welland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003022886
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Heather Welland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial crisis - especially those where politicians, commercial interest groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from mercantilism to liberalism - the shift from protectionism to free trade - is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments in economic thought"--

Author : Heather Welland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000394255
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Heather Welland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial crisis – especially those where politicians, commercial interest groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from mercantilism to liberalism – the shift from protectionism to free trade – is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments in economic thought.

Author : S. Reinert
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315555
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World written by S. Reinert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.

Author : Donald Winch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197262726
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914 written by Donald Winch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Britain emerge as a world power and later as the world's first industrial society? What policies, cultural practices, and institutions were responsible for this outcome? How were the inevitable disruptions to social and political life coped with? This innovative volume illustrates the contribution of economic thinking (scientific, official and popular) to the public understanding of British economic experience over the period 1688-1914. Political economy has frequently served as the favourite mode of public discourse when analysing or justifying British economic policies, performance and institutions. These sixteen essays, centering on the peculiarities of the British experience, are grouped under five main themes: foreign assessments of that experience; land tenure; empire and free trade; fiscal and monetary regimes; and the poor law and welfare. This is a collaborative endeavour by historians with established reputations in their field, which will appeal to all those interested in the current development of these branches of historical scholarship.

Author : Nancy F. Koehn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173170X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Commerce written by Nancy F. Koehn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire collapse so rapidly? Nancy F. Koehn here recounts the urgent challenges that confronted the British in the ten-year period following their overwhelming victory in the Seven Years War.

Author : Perry Gauci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317068742
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating the British Economy, 1660–1850 written by Perry Gauci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and credit, an international team of leading academics examine the ways in which state and society both advanced and responded to fundamental economic changes. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. They range broadly over Britain and its empire and also consider Britain's exceptionality through comparative studies. Together, the book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain relationship between the state and economic interests across the long eighteenth century.

Author : Donald Winch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781872343273
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Public Finance in the 'long' Eighteenth Century written by Donald Winch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Hoppit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015251
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Political Economies written by Julian Hoppit and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

Author : Peer Vries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472526406
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State, Economy and the Great Divergence written by Peer Vries and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of detail on comparative state formation that has wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global history. Beginning with an overview of the historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature published on the topic to date. Incorporating recent insights, he offers a compelling alternative to the claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority, which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue. This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.

Author : K. Stapelbroek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137265256
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century written by K. Stapelbroek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.