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Bills of Union: Money, Empire and Ambitions in the Mid-Eighteenth Century British Atlantic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030676797)
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xAnalyses how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the years before the American Revolution
Highlights the overlap between financial and imperial histories and reforms in the British Atlantic during the eighteenth century, and summarises key developments and scholarship relating to both strands
Examines the various proposals for an imperial monetary union and paper currency based on the principles of the land banking or 'specie' banking
Author: Aaron Graham
ISBN-10: 303067679X
ISBN-13: 9783030676797
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2022
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.36d
By Aaron Graham
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Aaron Graham is a Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He has previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at University College London and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, and was an Earhart Foundation Fellow in American History at the William L. Clements Library. He has published extensively on government, politics, finance and warfare in the British Atlantic between 1660 and 1850, and is currently working on a study of slavery, society, security and the colonial state in Jamaica in the age of revolutions between 1770 and 1840.
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