Banking, projecting and politicking in early modern England : the rise and fall of Thompson and Company 1671-1678 / Mabel Winter.
2022
HG2987
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Title
Banking, projecting and politicking in early modern England : the rise and fall of Thompson and Company 1671-1678 / Mabel Winter.
Author
Winter, Mabel, author.
ISBN
9783030905705 (electronic bk.)
3030905705 (electronic bk.)
9783030905699
3030905691
3030905705 (electronic bk.)
9783030905699
3030905691
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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10.1007/978-3-030-90570-5 doi
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HG2987
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.10942
Summary
Banking, Projecting, and Politicking uncovers a previously understudied and unacknowledged financial institution in late-seventeenth-century England known as Thompson and Company. Whilst the institution has been briefly mentioned in literary studies focusing on the poet and politician Andrew Marvell, it has never been the sole focus of an economic, financial, commercial, or political study in its own right. As such, nothing is known of how it operated, where it sits in the history of English finance, why it collapsed, or what it can tell us about wider Restoration society and its economic and political culture. Through a microhistorical study, the book reconstructs the institution of Thompson and Company, the social networks of its partners, the identity of its creditors, and the events and circumstances that led to its collapse. The book situates the reconstructed institution within its economic, commercial, financial, and political contexts, using the evidence accrued to question the traditional narrative of financial and commercial development, credit systems, the relationship between economics, finance, commerce and politics, and the place of risk and strategy in gendered relations, credit, and social status. The book will be of interest to academics and students in economic history, financial and business history. Mabel Winter has recently completed her PhD in socio-economic history at the University of Sheffield.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 25, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in economic history, 2662-6500
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Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Bank of Thompson and Company
Chapter 3. Thompson and Company in the wider history of banking
Chapter 4. The 'bank' of Thompson and Company?
Chapter 5. The partners' family networks
Chapter 6. The creditors of Thompson and Company and money management
Chapter 7. Reconstruction of the collapse of Thompson and Company
Chapter 8. Why did Thompson and Company collapse?
Chapter 9. Aftermath of the collapse of Thompson and Company
Chapter 10. Conclusion.
Chapter 2. The Bank of Thompson and Company
Chapter 3. Thompson and Company in the wider history of banking
Chapter 4. The 'bank' of Thompson and Company?
Chapter 5. The partners' family networks
Chapter 6. The creditors of Thompson and Company and money management
Chapter 7. Reconstruction of the collapse of Thompson and Company
Chapter 8. Why did Thompson and Company collapse?
Chapter 9. Aftermath of the collapse of Thompson and Company
Chapter 10. Conclusion.