The Financial Revolution 1660-1750 (Seminar Studies)

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Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
	The sinews of war
	Revolution or evolution?
	The parameters of credit
Part One: 1660-1685
	1 THE LEGACIES OF THE INTERREGNUM
		Revenue
		Taxation
		Borrowing
		The private sector
		Banks and bankers
		The Civil War
		The beginnings of English banking?
	2 THE REIGN OF CHARLES II
		The Additional Aid of 1665
		Appropriation
		The rate of interest
		Charles II and his bankers
		The \'Stop of the Exchequer\'
		After the \'Stop\'
		The legacy of Charles II
		Visions of reform
Part Two: 1685-1714
	3 REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONS
		The Reign of James II
		The financial settlement, 1689-90
	4 THE FINANCING OF WAR
		Taxation
		Borrowing
		The Bank of England
		The great recoinage of 1696
		The Land Bank
		The politics of finance
		The birth of the stock market
		Banking and party politics
	5 ASSESSMENT, 1685-1714
Part Three: 1714-1760
	6 THE FALL AND RISE OF THE LONDON MONEY MARKET
		The National Debt in 1714
		John Law\'s \'System\'
		The South Sea \'Scheme\'
		The Bubble
		The Bubble bursts
		Sir Robert Walpole
	7 AFTER THE CRASH
		Pelham\'s conversion
		The financial Establishment
	8 ASSESSMENT, 1714-1760
		The investing public
		Insurance companies
		An efficient market?
		Financial crises
		Provincial capital markets
		The London bankers
		The Financial Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
		Foreign investment in England
		Conclusion
Part Four: Documents
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX