Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367901424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 194 str.

Heather Welland

Opis

This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Commercial Credibility and Imperial Expansion: Establishing the Whig Establishment  2. "Imaginary Wants" and the Limits of Empire  3. Public Safety, Public Interest: The Militia and the Seven Years "War for Commerce"  4. Economies of Allegiance: The Quebec Act  5. Imperial Wealth and Disreputable Interests: Ireland and the Stamp Act  6. Interest Politics and Empire in the Age of Revolution.  Coda

O autorze

Heather Welland is an assistant professor in the History Department at Binghamton University, State University of New York.