Britain''s Political Economies - Parliament and Economic Life, 16601800

Informationen zum Autor Julian Hoppit is Astor Professor of British History at University College London, where he has taught for over thirty years. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, and he has held visiting fellowships at the Huntingdon Library California and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. Previous publications include Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700–1800 (Cambridge, 2002) and A Land of Liberty? England 1689–1727 (2002). He edited the Historical Journal from 2008 to 2012 and he is the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2016–19) to research 'Public Finances and the Union, 1707–1978'. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive account of how government legislation affected economic life! and how economic interests across Britain used parliament for their own benefit in the period following the Glorious Revolution. Britain's Political Economies transforms our understanding of how political power influenced Britain's precocious economic development in the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Contours: 1. Introduction; 2. The legislative revolution; 3. Legislating economically; 4. The local, national, and imperial; 5. Information, interests, and political economy; Part II. Cases: 6. The political economy of the fens; 7. The political economy of wool; 8. The political economy of bounties; 9. Refiguring the British fiscal state; 10. Conclusion; Appendix 1: legislation subject scheme; Appendix 2: specific economic legislation by English and Scottish counties, 1707-1800.

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• Authors: Julian Hoppit, Julian (University College London) Hoppit, Hoppit Julian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.2017
• EAN: 9781316649909
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64990-9
• No. of pages: 410
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political Economy, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800