Empire of Credit. The financial revolutions in Britain, Ireland and America, 1688-1815

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Collected essays largely dealing with the issue of credit in the Atlantic world which is seen as an 'integrated world of government debt, banking, taxation and trade' that emerged c1688-1815. Includes Robin Herman, 'Money and empire. The failure of the Royal African Company'