UID:
almahu_9949386678402882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000394252
,
1000394255
,
9781003022886
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100302288X
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9781000394238
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1000394239
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies
Content:
"This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial crisis - especially those where politicians, commercial interest groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from mercantilism to liberalism - the shift from protectionism to free trade - is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments in economic thought"--
Note:
Introduction1. Commercial Credibility and Imperial Expansion: Establishing the Whig Establishment2. "Imaginary Wants" and the Limits of Empire3. Public Safety, Public Interest: The Militia and the Seven Years "War for Commerce"4. Economies of Allegiance: The Quebec Act5. Imperial Wealth and Disreputable Interests: Ireland and the Stamp Act6. Interest Politics and Empire in the Age of RevolutionCoda
Additional Edition:
Print version: Welland, Heather, 1980- Political economy and imperial governance in eighteenth-century Britain New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 ISBN 9780367901424
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003022886
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003022886
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