The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
An Empire of Trade: Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland....Pages 11-31
A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years’ War....Pages 32-52
Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires....Pages 53-75
Views from the South: Images of Britain and Its Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Political Economic Discourse, ca. 1740–1810....Pages 76-104
The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500–1849....Pages 105-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
War, Peace and the Rise of the London Stock Market....Pages 131-146
The Impact of Gifts and Trade: Georgia Colonists and Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast....Pages 147-172
Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the Early East India Company State....Pages 173-191
How Feeding Slaves Shaped the French Atlantic: Mercantilism and the Crisis of Food Provisioning in the Franco-Caribbean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries....Pages 192-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-241