Commerce, finance and statecraft
Histories of England, 1600-1780
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ISBN-13:
9781784992965
Veröffentl:
2018
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Erscheinungsdatum:
04.06.2018
Seiten:
290
Autor:
Ben Dew
Gewicht:
545 g
Format:
222x145x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the nation's economic history. Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and examines their importance for the economic, political and historical thought of the period.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the nation's economic history. Commerce, finances and statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and examines their importance for the economic, political and historical thought of the period. -- .
IntroductionPart I1 Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII2 Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales3 Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes' AnnalesPart II4 The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft5 Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire6 Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History7 Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General HistoryPart III8 Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History9 The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of EnglandConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex