The Currency of Empire

Author/Contributor(s):	Barth, Jonathan
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	06/15/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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"--