The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-century English America
"Money and fiscal policy precipitated many of the most significant political conflicts between England and the American colonies in the seventeenth century. Competition over silver currency in particular provoked a transatlantic crisis in the 1670s and 1680s, ameliorated only with the onset of a new imperial-colonial bargain in the 1690s"--
GenresMoneyPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory17th centuryMercantile system
396 pages
English edition · First published 2021 by Cornell University Press · ISBN 9781501755798
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