1st Edition
Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Heather Welland
Copyright 2021
204 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather than... Read more
Introduction
1. Commercial Credibility and Imperial Expansion: Establishing the Whig Establishment
2. "Imaginary Wants" and the Limits of Empire
3. Public Safety, Public Interest: The Militia and the Seven Years "War for Commerce"
4. Economies of Allegiance: The Quebec Act
5. Imperial Wealth and Disreputable Interests: Ireland and the Stamp Act
6. Interest Politics and Empire in the Age of Revolution
Coda
Biography
Heather Welland is an assistant professor in the History Department at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
