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Pages: 656
Authors: Peter George Muir Dickson
Categories: Debts, External
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Peter Dickson's important study of the origins and development of the system of public borrowing which enabled Great Britain to emerge as a world power in the e
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Language: en
Pages: 126
Authors: Henry G. Roseveare
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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The financial revolution marked the end of medieval England, and through the major institutions such as Lloyds and the Bank of England, laid the foundations on
Casualties of Credit
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Carl Wennerlind
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620–1720, laid the foundation for England’s political, military, and economic dominance in the
The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: en
Pages: 260
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Categories: History
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In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, have elaborated the concept of what has been called
Prometheus Shackled
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Pages: 224
Authors: Peter Temin
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After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for th