Casualties of Credit : The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720 / Carl Wennerlind.
2011
HG3754.5.G7 W46 2011eb
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Casualties of Credit : The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720 / Carl Wennerlind.
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Wennerlind, Carl, author.
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9780674062665
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
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©2011
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English
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In English.
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10.4159/harvard.9780674062665 doi
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HG3754.5.G7 W46 2011eb
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332.0942/09032
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Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620¬-1720, laid the foundation for England's political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that instilled fear in its foes and facilitated the first industrial revolution. Yet a number of casualties followed in the wake of this new system of credit. Not only was it precarious and prone to accidents, but it depended on trust, public opinion, and ultimately violence.Carl Wennerlind reconstructs the intellectual context within which the financial revolution was conceived. He traces how the discourse on credit evolved and responded to the Glorious Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, the founding of the Bank of England, the Great Recoinage, armed conflicts with Louis XIV, the Whig-Tory party wars, the formation of the public sphere, and England's expanded role in the slave trade. Debates about credit engaged some of London's most prominent turn-of-the-century intellectuals, including Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Jonathan Swift and Christopher Wren. Wennerlind guides us through these conversations, toward an understanding of how contemporaries viewed the precariousness of credit and the role of violence-war, enslavement, and executions-in the safeguarding of trust.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Author's Note on Conventions
Introduction
I. Alchemy and Credit
1. Th e Scarcity of Money Problem and the Birth of English Political Economy
2. The Alchemical Foundations of Credit
II. Death Penalty and Credit
3. The Epistemology of Credit
4. Capital Punishment in Defense of Credit
III. Slavery and Credit
5. Public Credit and the Public Sphere
6. The South Sea Company and the Restoration of Public Credit
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Author's Note on Conventions
Introduction
I. Alchemy and Credit
1. Th e Scarcity of Money Problem and the Birth of English Political Economy
2. The Alchemical Foundations of Credit
II. Death Penalty and Credit
3. The Epistemology of Credit
4. Capital Punishment in Defense of Credit
III. Slavery and Credit
5. Public Credit and the Public Sphere
6. The South Sea Company and the Restoration of Public Credit
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index