The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Of Empire and Political Economy -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire -- Part I Theorising the Early Modern Empire -- 1 An Empire of Trade: Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland -- 2 A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years' War -- 3 Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires -- 4 Views from the South: Images of Britain and Its Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Political Economic Discourse, ca. 1740-1810 -- 5 The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849 -- Part II Imperial Experiences -- 6 War, Peace and the Rise of the London Stock Market -- 7 The Impact of Gifts and Trade: Georgia Colonists and Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast -- 8 Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the Early East India Company State -- 9 How Feeding Slaves Shaped the French Atlantic: Mercantilism and the Crisis of Food Provisioning in the Franco-Caribbean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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