Bills of union : money, empire and ambitions in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic / Aaron Graham.
Graham, Aaron, 1984- author.
2021
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Title Bills of union : money, empire and ambitions in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic / Aaron Graham.
Author Graham, Aaron, 1984- author.
ISBN 9783030676773 (electronic bk.)
3030676773 (electronic bk.)
9783030676766
3030676765
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67677-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (147 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-67677-3 doi
Call Number HG508
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.4/9709033
Summary This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the years before the American Revolution. The eighteenth century saw many financial experiments as Britons and Americans tried to work out how to manage currency and banking in the British Atlantic. Existing studies have looked at the successes and failures of schemes in individual colonies, but some had grander ambitions, such as Benjamin Franklin, and offered proposals for imperial or continental currencies and banks that would knit together the entire empire in North America and the West Indies. This book makes an important contribution to the wider scholarship not just of banking, currency and financial thought but also empire, politics and the American Revolution. It will be of interest to academics working on the history of finance, banking and currency in the British Isles and North America in the eighteenth century, as well as those working on the political economy of the British Empire, such as mercantilism, trade, warfare, and the politics of empire in the decades leading up to the American Revolution.
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Series Palgrave studies in the history of finance.
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Intro
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Money
Ambitions
Empire
Consequences
Chapter 2: Land Banks
Land Banks
Franklin (1754-1767)
Williamos (1766)
Macleane (1765)
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Specie Banks
British Banks
Precedents
Sir Alexander Cuming (1748)
Jackson (1754)
McCulloh (1751-1765)
Townshend (1767)
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Conclusion
Failures
Hypotheticals
Monetary Unions
Final Thoughts
Appendix A: Sir Alexander Cuming, Commonplace Book (Circa 1764 to 1767)
Appendix B: Lauchlin Macleane to the Earl of Hertford 'Proposal' (1765)
Appendix C: Charles Williamos 'Plan for Establishing a Bank in North America' (c. 1766)
Appendix D: 'Proposals for Establishing Paper Currency in North America' (Undated but c. 1767)1
Bibliography
Manuscript Sources
British Library
Clements Library
Huntington Library
Lloyds Banking Group Archives
Newberry Library
John Rylands Library
Staffordshire Record Office
The National Archives of the United Kingdom
Printed Sources
Secondary Sources
Index.

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