The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America

Money And Fiscal Policy Precipitated Many Of The Most Significant Political Conflicts Between England And The American Colonies In The Seventeenth Century. Competition Over Silver Currency In Particular Provoked A Transatlantic Crisis In The 1670s And 1680s, Ameliorated Only With The Onset Of A New Imperial-colonial Bargain In The 1690s-- Silver, Mercantilism, And The Impulse For Colonization -- The First Decades Of English American Settlement, 1607- -- Monetary Upheaval, Recovery And The Dutch Infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, Mints, Clipping, Smuggling, And Piracy, 1660- -- Empire In Crisis And Flux, 1670- -- Showdown In English America, 1675- -- Economic Rebellion, Competition, And Growth In English America, 1680- -- Revolutions Of 1685- -- Reconstructing A Mercantilist Empire, The 1690s -- The Grand Settlement. Jonathan Barth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.