Ben Dew

Commerce, finance and statecraft (eBook, PDF)

Histories of England, 1600-1780

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Commerce, finance and statecraft charts the emergence of new approaches to England's economic history in the historical writing of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book explores the work of the period's most influential historians - among them Francis Bacon, William Camden, Paul de Rapin-Thoyras and David Hume - and shows how these writers, and their contemporaries, were engaged in a series of hotly contested, politically-charged debates concerning the management of England's commercial and financial interests. This book will be essential reading for historians and literary critics working on Restoration and eighteenth-century historical writing, and historians, economists, political scientists, and philosophers interested in historiographical theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526151605
• Artikelnr.: 62167955

Autorenporträt

Ben Dew is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I 1 Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's History of the
Reign of King Henry VII 2 Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales 3
Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes' Annales Part II 4 The English Civil
War and the politics of economic statecraft 5 Whig history: Paul de Thoyras
de Rapin's Histoire 6 Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History 7
Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General History Part III 8 Economic
statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History 9 The
end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England Conclusion
Notes Bibliography Index