Michael Wagner

The English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763 (eBook, PDF)

Guns, Money and Lawyers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies active during 1688-1763. Using archival and secondary sources, it fills in some of the knowledge gaps concerning the less well-studied companies, and examines interconnections between international rivalry, financial operations of the companies, and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429877124
• Artikelnr.: 56834365

Autorenporträt

Michael Wagner teaches courses in eighteenth-century British history in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Guns
Rivalry and the Pressure to Innovate 2. Money
The Companies as Financial Innovators 3. Lawyers
The Political Verdict. Conclusion