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Author:   Andrew McDiarmid (University of Dundee, United Kingdom)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.489kg
ISBN:  

9781032257433

ISBN 10:   1032257431
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   14 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction / The Financial Revolution at Home: Scotland, 1690-1707 / ‘Land is what produces everything, silver is only the product’: The Land Bank Debates of England, North America, and Scotland, 1650-1705 / ‘The Proper Question is not whether Paper Money be as Good as Silver or Gold, but whether it is Better than No Money’: William Burnet and the New Jersey Loan Office / ‘We are far from fairy tale Mr Chancellor’: John Law and the Proposed National Bank of France, 1701-02 / For the want of ‘scots projects’: Scottish Financial Actors and Scottish Financial Institutions after 1707 / The long road to the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the growth of Scottish banking, 1707-1772 / Conclusion

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"Andrew McDiarmid earned his PhD at the University of Dundee and has attended the Graduate School at Yale University. He has been an adjunct professor at University College Dublin and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on Early Modern Scotland, Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, with an interest in the history of money and the development of financial institutions. The author’s previous publications include: ‘The Equivalent Societies of Edinburgh and London, the Formation of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Nature of the Scottish Financial Revolution’, Journal of British Studies (2021); and '""Bring us wealth, or keep it among us"": The financial literature of the Edinburgh pamphlet war of 1705, and the capitalisation of the Scottish economy', Scottish Historical Review (2022)."

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