Andrew McDiarmid

Credit, Currency, and Capital (eBook, ePUB)

The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1690-1727

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph, the first dedicated to the topic, addresses this problem, and provides a model for identifying and understanding the revolution through the economic, political, and constitutional contexts of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000910582
• Artikelnr.: 68157049

Autorenporträt

Andrew McDiarmid earned his PhD at the University of Dundee and has attended the Graduate School at Yale University. He has been an adjunct professor at University College Dublin and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on Early Modern Scotland, Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, with an interest in the history of money and the development of financial institutions. The author's previous publications include: 'The Equivalent Societies of Edinburgh and London, the Formation of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Nature of the Scottish Financial Revolution', Journal of British Studies (2021); and '"Bring us wealth, or keep it among us": The financial literature of the Edinburgh pamphlet war of 1705, and the capitalisation of the Scottish economy', Scottish Historical Review (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / The Financial Revolution at Home: Scotland
1690-1707 / 'Land is what produces everything
silver is only the product': The Land Bank Debates of England
North America
and Scotland
1650-1705 / 'The Proper Question is not whether Paper Money be as Good as Silver or Gold
but whether it is Better than No Money': William Burnet and the New Jersey Loan Office / 'We are far from fairy tale Mr Chancellor': John Law and the Proposed National Bank of France
1701-02 / For the want of 'scots projects': Scottish Financial Actors and Scottish Financial Institutions after 1707 / The long road to the Royal Bank of Scotland
and the growth of Scottish banking
1707-1772 / Conclusion