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'In this fine study, Ben Dew perceptively examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century-historians of England's narratives and normative assessments of commerce and finance, as well as monarchical policies designed to shape the new economic conditions. [...] Commerce, Finance and Statecraft deserves a wide readership. Among its many strengths, Dew's book provides scholars working within the field of History of Capitalism with a timely meditation on the politics of the historians' choices in how they explain and assess the past to shape the future.' Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University), in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (Autumn 2020). -- .

'In this fine study, Ben Dew perceptively examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century-historians of England’s narratives and normative assessments of commerce and finance, as well as monarchical policies designed to shape the new economic conditions. [...] Commerce, Finance and Statecraft deserves a wide readership. Among its many strengths, Dew’s book provides scholars working within the field of History of Capitalism with a timely meditation on the politics of the historians’ choices in how they explain and assess the past to shape the future.' Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University), in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (Autumn 2020). -- .

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Ben Dew is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth

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