Commerce, Finance and Statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780

by Ben Dew

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784992968
• ISBN13: 9781784992965
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"