Commerce, finance and statecraft : histories of England, 1600-1780 /

Commerce, finance and statecraft : histories of England, 1600-1780 / / Ben Dew.

Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians ­– among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, P...

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Dew, Benjamin, 1978-
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Manchester University Press,
Place / Publishing House:Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2018.
Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, [2020]
©2018
Year of Publication:2020
2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource ( viii, 278 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's
  • History of the Reign of King Henry VII
  • 2. Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales
  • 3. Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes'
  • Annales
  • 4. The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft
  • 5. Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire
  • 6. Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History
  • 7. Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General History
  • 8. Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History
  • 9. The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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