Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England: The Dark Arts of Projectors

by Martin Parker and Valerie Hamilton

This little book tells the truthful story of how the Bank of England actually came into being. It is a story of pirates, treasure, random good fortune and sheer determination. This is an institution founded on risk, daring and imagination. The tale is entangled with that of the early novel, in particular the fortunes of one Moll Flanders, an entrepreneur of sexual relations in the growing London market for capital in the early eighteenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782799524
• ISBN13: 9781782799528
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"