Money, Power, and Print: nterdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles
Charles Ivar McGrath (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): McGrath, Charles Ivar; Fauske, Chris. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490923
SKU
V9781611490923
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Ref
99-15
About Charles Ivar McGrath (Ed.)
Charles Ivar McGrath is lecturer in history at University College Dublin. Chris Fauske is associate dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Salem State College.
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